[Python-checkins] bpo-35450: reflect in docs that venv module is not always creating a copy of the Python binary (GH-11144) (GH-11167)

[Brett Cannon]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d5176fe2bcd35dc8d70d13220b58fa7ccd05b47a
commit: d5176fe2bcd35dc8d70d13220b58fa7ccd05b47a
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Brett Cannon <brettcannon at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-12-14T12:38:23-08:00
summary:

bpo-35450: reflect in docs that venv module is not always creating a copy of the Python binary (GH-11144) (GH-11167)

https://bugs.python.org/issue35450
(cherry picked from commit f5107dfd42121ef40b13eb678705802f0ff02cf9)

Co-authored-by: mkkot <marcin2006 at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/using/venv-create.inc

diff --git a/Doc/using/venv-create.inc b/Doc/using/venv-create.inc
index 45abd59d1868..ba5096abd370 100644
--- a/Doc/using/venv-create.inc
+++ b/Doc/using/venv-create.inc
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ Running this command creates the target directory (creating any parent
 directories that don't exist already) and places a ``pyvenv.cfg`` file in it
 with a ``home`` key pointing to the Python installation from which the command
 was run.  It also creates a ``bin`` (or ``Scripts`` on Windows) subdirectory
-containing a copy of the ``python`` binary (or binaries, in the case of
-Windows).  It also creates an (initially empty) ``lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages``
-subdirectory (on Windows, this is ``Lib\site-packages``). If an existing
+containing a copy/symlink of the Python binary/binaries (as appropriate for the
+platform or arguments used at environment creation time). It also creates an
+(initially empty) ``lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages`` subdirectory
+(on Windows, this is ``Lib\site-packages``). If an existing
 directory is specified, it will be re-used.
 
 .. deprecated:: 3.6