I've not seen any documentation and/or code (other than the PEP) yet for the _ensurepip changes that will be going into Python 3.4, but can I check what the intention is for people using the extensibility API in venv?
Specifically, if I want to install something as well as (or other than) pip/setuptools when I create a venv, will venv.EnvBuilder support that? Specifically, I'd need to be able to say whether or not I want _ensurepip to run in the venv. Ideally, I'd also like it if the temporary pip instance that _ensurepip uses was exposed somehow, so that I could use it to (for example) install extra packages in my venv build script. Obviously I could just run pip again after the venv is created but (1) only if I install pip (I might want a builder that uses pip to install another package, but I don't want pip in the final venv) and (2) that's an extra process run, which has a non-trivial runtime cost on Windows at least. Obviously I'll be looking at testing this type of thing once the beta comes out, but I wondered if the scripting API for venv was something that had been thought about in advance. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
