[Python-ideas] Draft PEP for virtualenv in the stdlib

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/24/2011 2:21 PM, Carl Meyer wrote:

> The ``site`` and ``sysconfig`` standard-library modules are modified
> such that site-package directories ("purelib" and "platlib", in
> ``sysconfig`` terms) are found relative to ``sys.site_prefix``, while
> other directories (the standard library, include files) are still
> found relative to ``sys.prefix``.

FYI To substantially shorten startup time, sysconfig has been recently 
modified to import as much precomputed info as possible instead of 
recomputing things at each run.

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Terry Jan Reedy