[New-bugs-announce] [issue42228] Activate.ps1 clears PYTHONHOME

[Ben Boeckel]

New submission from Ben Boeckel <bugs.python at me.benboeckel.net>:

On Windows, we are extracting a tarball of a Python installation for CI (to avoid needing to juggle umpteen Python installs on umpteen machines). This requires `PYTHONHOME` to be set to use properly since there is no registry entry for the "installation". However, `Activate.ps1` clears `PYTHONHOME` unconditionally. Is there something else we can do to properly integrate with it or should there be an option to say "no, I need `PYTHONHOME` for the stdlib to work"?

I don't know how relevant this is to other platforms at the moment as other mechanisms are sufficient there (Xcode's Python3.framework in the SDK and Linux system packages).

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components: Windows
messages: 380125
nosy: mathstuf, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Activate.ps1 clears PYTHONHOME
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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