[Python-Dev] PEP: per user site-packages directory (original) (raw)

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Mon Jan 14 15:15:39 CET 2008

On 12:08 pm, walter at livinglogic.de wrote:

So if I'm using the --user option, where would scripts be installed? Would this be:

Windows: %APPDATA%/Python/Python26/bin Mac: ~/Library/Python/2.6/bin Unix: ~/.local/lib/python2.6/bin I'd like to be able to switch between several versions of my user installation simply by changing a link. (On the Mac I'm doing this by relinking ~/Library/Python to different directories.)

I think the relevant link to change here would be ~/.local.

I have personally been using the ~/.local convention for a while, and I believe ~/.local/bin is where scripts should go. Python is not the only thing that can be locally installed, and the fact that it's ~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages suggests that ~/.local has the same layout as /usr (or /usr/local, for those who use that convention).

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