bpo-35450: reflect in docs that venv module is not always creating a … · python/cpython@f5107df

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directories that don't exist already) and places a ``pyvenv.cfg`` file in it

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with a ``home`` key pointing to the Python installation from which the command

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was run. It also creates a ``bin`` (or ``Scripts`` on Windows) subdirectory

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containing a copy of the ``python`` binary (or binaries, in the case of

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Windows). It also creates an (initially empty) ``lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages``

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subdirectory (on Windows, this is ``Lib\site-packages``). If an existing

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containing a copy/symlink of the Python binary/binaries (as appropriate for the

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platform or arguments used at environment creation time). It also creates an

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(initially empty) ``lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages`` subdirectory

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(on Windows, this is ``Lib\site-packages``). If an existing

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directory is specified, it will be re-used.

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.. deprecated:: 3.6