[issue35644] venv doesn't do what it claims to do (apears not to work at all?)

Ray Donnelly added the comment: The commit that my patch modifies is: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1c3de541e64f75046b20cdd27bada1557e550bcd Cheers. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35644] venv doesn't do what it claims to do (apears not to work at all?)

Ray Donnelly added the comment: Bit of an update to this, I'm re-opening it as there appears to be a regression from Python 3.7.1 to 3.7.2 for the case when there is no venvlauncher.exe present (i.e. when there are no python{w,}.exes in Lib\venv\scripts\nt). The old code of copying `sys.exec

[issue35644] venv doesn't do what it claims to do (apears not to work at all?)

Ray Donnelly added the comment: I found the executable is in the `Scripts` directory, closing. The real issue I'm facing is on Anaconda Distribution's build of Python 3 which I'm updating to 3.7.2. Closing, Cheers! -- stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue35644] venv doesn't do what it claims to do (apears not to work at all?)

New submission from Ray Donnelly : Happy New Year! I'm not sure if this is a misunderstanding on my part, a docs bug or a code bug. At https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html we see: "The solution for this problem is to create a virtual environment, a self-contained directory tree that co