[Distutils] virtual-python.py, sys.prefix, and Mac

[Andreas Jung]

--On 15. September 2007 11:09:44 -0500 Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> 
wrote:

> Hi all.  I'm kind of giving up on workingenv, and have started working
> from virtual-python as a basis instead
> (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/).
>

I tried virtualenv - however the python in the new environment contains
all eggs in sys.path that are installed for the original Python interpreter.

Bug or feature?

Andreas

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jung at galactica:/tmp> /opt/python-2.4.3/bin/virtualenv envtest
Creating envtest/lib/python2.4
Creating envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages
Creating envtest/bin
Copying /opt/python-2.4.3/bin/python to envtest/bin
Installing setuptools
Processing setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg
creating /tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg
Extracting setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg to 
/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages
Adding setuptools 0.6c7 to easy-install.pth file
Installing easy_install script to /tmp/envtest/bin
Installing easy_install-2.4 script to /tmp/envtest/bin

Installed 
/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c7
Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c7
Processing setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg
removing 
'/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg' (and 
everything under it)
creating /tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg
Extracting setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg to 
/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages
setuptools 0.6c7 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing easy_install script to /tmp/envtest/bin
Installing easy_install-2.4 script to /tmp/envtest/bin

Installed 
/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c7
Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c7

ajung at galactica:/tmp> cd envtest/

ajung at galactica:/tmp/envtest> bin/python -c "import sys; print sys.path"

['', '/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/psycopg2-2.0.5.1-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Slimp-0.3-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/chardet-1.0-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zc.catalog-1.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/textindexng-1.0_trunk-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/epydoc-3.0beta1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pytz-2007c-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/vobject-0.4.8-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AOPython-1.0.3-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MyghtyUtils-0.52-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/docutils-0.4-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Elixir-0.3.0-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Cheesecake-0.6.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/migrate-0.2.2-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/enfold.xapian-0.9.14-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lemur.xapian-0.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/simplejson-1.7.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c6-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zc.buildout-1.0.0b25-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/igraph-0.4.2-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyflakes-0.2.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylint-0.13.2-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pudge-0.1.3-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.2-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Mako-0.1.8-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Paste-1.4-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PasteDeploy-1.3.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PasteScript-1.3.5-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/i18ndude-3.0b2-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/workingenv.py-0.6.5-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Beaker-0.7.4-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/grok-0.9dev_r77767-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/martian-0.8-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ZConfig-2.3.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bebop.recipe.svncheckout-0.0.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/TextIndexNGExtensions-4.0.0-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/python_Levenshtein-0.10-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/grokproject-0.5.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yolk-0.3.0-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.10-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyparsing-1.4.7-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/kid-0.9.6-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pysqlite-2.3.5-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zopeproject-0.3.2-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes-1.0.2-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/buildbot-0.7.5-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BeautifulSoup-3.0.4-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/z3c.sqlalchemy-1.0.11-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/feedparser-4.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zopyx.textindexng3-4.0.0-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/zopyx.slimp-0.2.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/haufe.testrunner-0.2.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/coverage-2.77-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/genesis.wsl-0.2dev_r48613-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/antlr_python_runtime-3.0-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ZopeSkel-0.8-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Cheetah-1.0-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
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'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/haufe.selenium-0.1.0-py2.4.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/python_ldap-2.3.1-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtualenv-0.8.1-py2.4.egg', 
'/tmp/envtest/lib/python24.zip', '/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4', 
'/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4', '/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2', 
'/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload', 
'/tmp/envtest/lib/python2.4/site-packages', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages', 
'/opt/python-2.4.3/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL']
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