[doc] Document VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable (GH-21970)

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| | PowerShell | PS C:\\> <venv>\\Scripts\\Activate.ps1 |
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When a virtual environment is active, the :envvar:`VIRTUAL_ENV` environment
variable is set to the path of the virtual environment. This can be used to
check if one is running inside a virtual environment.
You don't specifically *need* to activate an environment; activation just
prepends the virtual environment's binary directory to your path, so that
"python" invokes the virtual environment's Python interpreter and you can run