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On 10 Feb 2015 22:40, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
\>
\> tl;dr - Having a shared per-user scripts directory on Windows
\> (%APPDATA%/Python/Scripts) causes a number of potential issues when
\> users install the same package in multiple Python versions. I'd like
\> to suggest that this be changed to a versioned directory
\> (%APPDATA%/PythonXY/Scripts) to match all other Python directories on
\> Windows.
\>
\> This issue originally started as a discussion on the pip tracker
\> around making --user the default for pip. See
\> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1668 for details.

For the reasons Paul gives, I'm personally +1 on making the change.

I was actually surprised it didn't already work that way, given that almost everything else on Windows is version specific.

Cheers,
Nick.