[New-bugs-announce] [issue20071] What should happen if someone runs ./python -m ensurepip in the build environment?

[R. David Murray]

New submission from R. David Murray:

Someone on IRC reported doing this, and it (logically enough) gave a permission error trying to install into /opt.  That may be exactly what it should do...but if he'd done it as root, presumably it would have tried to install PIP without python having been installed first, which might be wrong.

(Donald says it would indeed install it, creating the directories as needed.)

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priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: What should happen if someone runs ./python -m ensurepip in the build environment?

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