I'm creating a new Python virtual environment with Python's 3.5 built-in virrtualenv package:
D:\Projects>python -m venv --system-site-packages proj_3
D:\Projects>cd proj_3
D:\Projects\proj_3>Scripts\activate.bat
(proj_3) D:\Projects\proj_3>pip install comtypes
Collecting comtypes
Downloading comtypes-1.1.2.zip (179kB)
100% |################################| 184kB 569kB/s
Installing collected packages: comtypes
Running setup.py install for comtypes ... done
Successfully installed comtypes-1.1.2
(proj_3) D:\Projects\proj_3>dir Lib\site-packages
Volume in drive D has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0E52-CE22
Directory of D:\Projects\proj_3\Lib\site-packages
20.05.2016 14:15 <DIR> .
20.05.2016 14:15 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 268,620,853,248 bytes free
So I want to reuse existing system packages and install new package in my created virtualenv. But instead, although I'm in virtualenv, pip installed the package in my system libraries instead in local project.
(proj_3) D:\Projects\proj_3>where pip
C:\Python35\Scripts\pip.exe
(proj_3) D:\Projects\proj_3>python -m ensurepip
Ignoring indexes: https://pypi.python.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in c:\python35\lib\site-packages
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pip in c:\python35\lib\site-packages
It looks like pip is not bootstraped in my local package because it already exists in my system packages. Unless I did something wrong, this is unexpected as using virtualenv with Python 2 does not behave like this.
Any ideas what might be wrong?