Nick Coghlan added the comment: Oh, I forgot about os.devnull.
ensurepip.bootstrap mutates the environment of the current process (hence the recommendation to use the CLI instead), so yes, doing "os.environ['PIP_CONFIG_FILE'] = os.devnull" before importing pip should do the trick. And then generate a "no-install=true" config with HOME in test_venv to make sure it is properly ignored. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20053> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com