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venv should include python-config in the virtual environment

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Bug report

Bug description:

When venv creates a virtual environment it puts the specified python binary from the python distributions bin directory into the virtual environment's bin directory. It does not add the python-config script from the python distribution's bin directory to the virtual environment's bin directory. I, and many others, believe that it should.

From the Debian python-config man page:

python-config helps compiling and linking programs, which embed the Python interpreter, or extension modules that can be loaded dynamically (at run time) into the interpreter.

Any python project that is going to include a custom module written in C is going to want to use python-config to help compile and link that C code. It's going to want to use the python-config for the version of python that the rest of the project is using (from the virtual environment). Currently that is very difficult because python-config is not part of the virtual environment. This defeats the safety and convenience of virtual environments.

There are several different threads of people asking for this in virtualenv, pyvenv, anaconda, uv, etc., and most of those projects say, "well, the built-in venv doesn't put python-config in the virtual environment's bin directory, so we aren't going to do it either." Yet there seems to be no reason why python-config is not put into the virtual environment along with python.

Links to those discussions:

https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/169

https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1808

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv/issues/459

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42020937/why-pyvenv-does-not-install-python-config

https://travis-ci.community/t/python-config-is-not-set-up-corresponding-to-build-python-version/10098

https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/1009

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/10263

CPython versions tested on:

3.13

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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Comienza localizando la implementación de venv y sus pruebas específicas de Linux; después, sigue cómo se selecciona e instala el ejecutable de Python del entorno. Añade cobertura de pruebas que demuestre que la python-config correspondiente está disponible en el directorio bin del entorno, y verifica el comportamiento en Linux con Python 3.13.

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Stack tecnológico
python
Área
tooling
Tipo de issue
Nueva funcionalidad
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3/5
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1-2 días
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Tranquilo
Claridad
Bastante claro
Aptitud para principiantes
55/100

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