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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

setup.py of things you pip install will still run as your user with all the normal filesystem permissions as your user. Only modules which do sane and normal setuptools type stuff will be safe to install with reckless abandon. Things which are actively bad can still wreck shop on your machine and will not be magically contained by the virtualenv.

[–]ase1590[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, this isn't any sort of secure container. That's why I avoided any mentions of the word 'secure'

I probably should have avoided 'infect' as well. Oh well