I'm working on a more complete understanding of Python Virtual Environment for portablity issues across cheap hosting solutions and development platforms and there are pieces I don't understand.
I've been building virtual environments, but I'm not seeing the COMPLETE ISOLATION I need for copying virtual environments to hosts assuming the hosts don't have python installed
The problem is I'll build a platform P that's not completely isolated from the system P -- bin/python2.6 -- lib/python2.6/site-packages
PATH is changed to contain only P/bin/
PYTHONPATH is blank
Works perfect. But, it still visits system directories to resolve what's not in the virtual environment. WHY??
in this case P=/tmp/pinax2/ `
import sys
print sys.path
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