How to check whether virtualenv was created with '--no-site-packages'?

Question

Sometimes I get errors that I suspect are the result of my Django app using globally installed Python modules/Django apps instead of those within its virtualenv.

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Answer 1

An easy way is opening the interactive python shell and executing import somemodule; print somemodule and then check the path from where that module was imported.

>>> import flask; print flask

vs.

>>> import flask; print flask