Just installed a brand new virtualenv along with two packages. Ran this and I got nothing:
(venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ python -m site (venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ I expected to have at least one path in sys.path [swright@localhost workspace]$ virtualenv --no-site-packages venvtest New python executable in venvtest/bin/python Installing setuptools............done. Installing pip...............done. [swright@localhost venvtest]$ source bin/activate (venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ python -m site (venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ (venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ pip install -r stable-req.txt Downloading/unpacking pycrypto==2.6 (from -r stable-req.txt (line 1)) Downloading pycrypto-2.6.tar.gz (443kB): 443kB downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package pycrypto Downloading/unpacking pymongo==2.4 (from -r stable-req.txt (line 2)) Downloading pymongo-2.4.tar.gz (273kB): 273kB downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package pymongo Downloading/unpacking yolk==0.4.3 (from -r stable-req.txt (line 3)) Downloading yolk-0.4.3.tar.gz (86kB): 86kB downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package yolk warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'tests' warning: no files found matching '*.conf' under directory 'docs' warning: no files found matching '*.css_t' under directory 'docs' warning: no files found matching 'indexsidebar.html' under directory 'docs' warning: no files found matching 'tests/test_cli.py' Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in ./lib/python 2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg (from yolk==0.4.3->-r stable-req.txt ( line 3)) ... lots more text... (venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ pwd /home/swright/workspace/venvtest (venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ ll lib/python2.6/site-packages/ total 372 drwxrwxr-x 2 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 bson drwxrwxr-x 10 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 Crypto -rw-rw-r-- 1 swright swright 237 Dec 19 09:32 easy-install.pth drwxrwxr-x 2 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 gridfs drwxrwxr-x 4 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:32 pip-1.2.1-py2.6.egg drwxrwxr-x 2 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 pycrypto-2.6-py2.6.egg-info drwxrwxr-x 2 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 pymongo drwxrwxr-x 2 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 pymongo-2.4-py2.6.egg-info -rw-r--r-- 1 swright swright 333447 Dec 5 09:13 setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg -rw-rw-r-- 1 swright swright 30 Dec 19 09:32 setuptools.pth drwxrwxr-x 3 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 yolk drwxrwxr-x 2 swright swright 4096 Dec 19 09:34 yolk-0.4.3-py2.6.egg-info (venvtest)[swright@localhost venvtest]$ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list