> There are plenty of other ways to get a venv through a potentially
> unexpected path (turns out I've been doing one for years)
Examples would be appreciated because I'm drawing a blank here. A junction or directory symlink in the parent path shouldn't be a problem. Otherwise I'd prefer that the solution for bpo-45337 was limited to an app container and paths in "%USERPROFILE%\AppData" (excluding "%TEMP%"). An app container can be detected via the package family name, if any, as returned by GetCurrentPackageFamilyName().