From dfa7107b2e1ff3983cd19f931fa6944b3f9ceaed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frost Ming <mianghong@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 22:06:23 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Don't use sys.executable when inside virtualenv

---
 pipenv/environments.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pipenv/environments.py b/pipenv/environments.py
index 46d9ff5c25..622bf2c06a 100644
--- a/pipenv/environments.py
+++ b/pipenv/environments.py
@@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ def initialize(self):
         self.PIPENV_VIRTUALENV = None
         if "PIPENV_ACTIVE" not in os.environ and not self.PIPENV_IGNORE_VIRTUALENVS:
             self.PIPENV_VIRTUALENV = os.environ.get("VIRTUAL_ENV")
-            self.PIPENV_USE_SYSTEM = bool(self.PIPENV_VIRTUALENV)
 
         # Internal, tells Pipenv to skip case-checking (slow internet connections).
         # This is currently always set to True for performance reasons.

From 6d207c135493276bc7f13966d4751f647ed1ef85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frost Ming <mianghong@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 22:07:18 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add news entry

---
 news/4852.bugfix.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 news/4852.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/news/4852.bugfix.rst b/news/4852.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec94539818
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/4852.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Don't use ``sys.executable`` when inside an activated venv.