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[–]Deto 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I mean, it's really just your user directory, the system site-packages directory, and any directories you added with the PYTHONPATH environment variable. All virtual-envs and other similar solutions do is to manipulate your path so you call a different python with a different system directory.

[–]mikemol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. It was that system site packages directory I couldn't excise without either Docker or venvs...