in virtual environment pip installs in global instead of virtual environment on Windows 10

Description

When I create a virtual environment with venv: py -m venv my_env and activate it, pip installs packages in the global site-packages of current python instead of venv site-packages I used pip install <package> and path/to/my_env/Scripts/python.exe -m pip install <package> but none of them worked.

I googled and checked activate file and the path was ok. Also a manual solution for every environment does not work for me as I want to use ‘Pycharm env’ and install platformio for vscode (as it first create virtual env then starts installing packages)

I even reinstalled my python but it didn’t worked. I don’t know if it’s related to pip.ini setting.

I have no idea what to do…

Expected behavior

I expected pip to install packages in path/to/my_env/Lib/site-packages instead of glabal python site-packages

pip version

22.0.4 (in virtual env, global is 22.1.1)

Python version

3.9.13

OS

Windows_NT, 10.0.19044, x64

How to Reproduce

py -m venv my_env [or ‘py -m virtualenv my_env’] my_env\Scripts\activate.bat pip install Django [or ‘my_env\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install Django’]

Output

No response

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[SaeedRezaAmanat]

I don’t know how you got that setting, it’s definitely not recommended. I’d suggest you remove it - that should fix your issue.

That was strange for me too. I had noticed that but I thought it was the default setting. Anyway removing pip.ini in the specified directory actually solved my problem! Thank you very much for your help!

[uranusjr]

Oh, I misread your previous comment! You were talking about disallowing setting those configs; I was thinking about let pip not run with those configs.