Hi team when I inspect the env var in a test running by Pant

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Hi team when I inspect the env var in a test running by Pants I found both PATH which include conda that just contains python and VIRTUAL ENV are presented I guess Pants Pex reply on the VIRTUAL ENV However if the test spawn a new process which inherit all the env vars the process will use the conda env from PATH instead of the VIRTUAL ENV I am wondering how to handle this case

wide-zoo-86070 · Answer

one solution I have is to prefix the PATH with the VIRTUAL ENV before spawning the new process

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

the `VIRTUAL ENV` which is present in the test environment is dynamically created by the PEX process it should not be associated with your external environment at all

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

Pants sandboxes the processes that are run one exception to that currently is the `PATH` just because so many binaries which tests usually need are in the `PATH`

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

it would be good to file a ticket describing what you are trying to do with `conda` inside of the test and how you would expect it to work my expectation is that tools like `conda` would should not work at all when run inside the sandbox but understanding the usecase would help