Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
Currently, the mechanism behind virtual environments is implemented in the site module. This means that disabling the site initialization (passing -S) disables virtual environments.
I would like to move the virtual environment detection from site to the interpreter initialization (getpath), which would essentially consist of setting sys.prefix to sys.exec_prefix to the virtual environment prefix in getpath.
The motivation is the same as GH-126793, the same UX example applies. Running python -S -m ensurepip inside a virtual environment would install to the system, instead of the virtual environment.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
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Links to previous discussion of this feature:
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