From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:24:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.14] Improved venv docs to indicate that isolation is the default. (GH-136698)... X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0rc1~58 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ce207108c381a1f765d03dffd6205ecc35db5e1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.14] Improved venv docs to indicate that isolation is the default. (GH-136698) (GH-136705) (cherry picked from commit 8e2f4b448380b4c835442534d566618f06e32573) Co-authored-by: Facundo Batista Co-authored-by: Vinay Sajip --- diff --git a/Doc/library/venv.rst b/Doc/library/venv.rst index f16e24eac083..de427fbafe71 100644 --- a/Doc/library/venv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/venv.rst @@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ The :mod:`!venv` module supports creating lightweight "virtual environments", each with their own independent set of Python packages installed in their :mod:`site` directories. A virtual environment is created on top of an existing -Python installation, known as the virtual environment's "base" Python, and may -optionally be isolated from the packages in the base environment, -so only those explicitly installed in the virtual environment are available. -See :ref:`sys-path-init-virtual-environments` and :mod:`site`'s +Python installation, known as the virtual environment's "base" Python, and by +default is isolated from the packages in the base environment, +so that only those explicitly installed in the virtual environment are +available. See :ref:`sys-path-init-virtual-environments` and :mod:`site`'s :ref:`virtual environments documentation ` for more information.