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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:41:33 -0400
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 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.

The config file is still read every time, though.

Regards

Antoine.