Python 3 virtualenv with site packages does not bootstrap pip
I'm creating a new Python virtual environment with Python's 3.5 built-in virrtualenv package: D:\Projects>python -m venv --system-site-packages proj_3 D:\Projects>cd proj_3 D:\Projects\proj_3>Scripts\activate.bat (proj_3) D:\Projects\proj_3>pip install comtypes Collecting comtypes Downloading comtypes-1.1.2.zip (179kB) 100% |################################| 184kB 569kB/s Installing collected packages: comtypes Running setup.py install for comtypes ... done Successfully installed comtypes-1.1.2 (proj_3) D:\Projects\proj_3>dir Lib\site-packages Volume in drive D has no label. Volume Serial