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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2013-12-23 06:16:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2013-12-23 06:16:07 (GMT) |
| commit | 6256fcbc97e0b1a1e0df1972221232b3a78dff18 (patch) | |
| tree | e901b7ff5795dfb5fbaffb2483d99fbaea91f851 /Doc | |
| parent | 3f122d6f44d2cdf0a806fa8019d58ea24cfdf070 (diff) | |
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Close #19734: ignore pip env vars in ensurepip
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ensurepip.rst b/Doc/library/ensurepip.rst index 528370c..0d82135 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ensurepip.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ensurepip.rst @@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ Module API .. note:: + The bootstrapping process has side effects on both ``sys.path`` and + ``os.environ``. Invoking the command line interface in a subprocess + instead allows these side effects to be avoided. + + .. note:: + The bootstrapping process may install additional modules required by ``pip``, but other software should not assume those dependencies will always be present by default (as the dependencies may be removed in a |