Remove unnecessary exception handling

pipenv/environment.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import site
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
-from sysconfig import get_paths, get_python_version, get_scheme_names
+from sysconfig import get_paths, get_scheme_names
 
 import pkg_resources
 
@@ -159,17 +159,6 @@ def python_info(self) -> Dict[str, str]:
             return {"py_version_short": py_version_short, "abiflags": abiflags}
         return {}
 
-    def _replace_parent_version(self, path: str, replace_version: str) -> str:
-        if not os.path.exists(path):
-            base, leaf = os.path.split(path)
-            base, parent = os.path.split(base)
-            leaf = os.path.join(parent, leaf).replace(
-                replace_version,
-                self.python_info.get("py_version_short", get_python_version()),
-            )
-            return os.path.join(base, leaf)
-        return path
-
     @cached_property
     def install_scheme(self):
         if "venv" in get_scheme_names():
@@ -214,30 +203,7 @@ def base_paths(self) -> Dict[str, str]:
         if self._base_paths:
             paths = self._base_paths.copy()
         else:
-            try:
-                paths = self.get_paths()
-            except Exception:
-                paths = get_paths(
-                    self.install_scheme,
-                    vars={
-                        "base": prefix,
-                        "platbase": prefix,
-                    },
-                )
-                current_version = get_python_version()
-                try:
-                    for k in list(paths.keys()):
-                        if not os.path.exists(paths[k]):
-                            paths[k] = self._replace_parent_version(
-                                paths[k], current_version
-                            )
-                except OSError:
-                    # Sometimes virtualenvs are made using virtualenv interpreters and there is no
-                    # include directory, which will cause this approach to fail. This failsafe
-                    # will make sure we fall back to the shell execution to find the real include path
-                    paths = self.get_include_path()
-                    paths.update(self.get_lib_paths())
-                    paths["scripts"] = self.script_basedir
+            paths = self.get_paths()
         if not paths:
             paths = get_paths(
                 self.install_scheme,