[Python-Dev] Add python.exe to PATH environment variable (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 09:57:12 CEST 2008


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org>wrote:

One other reason not to mess with the PATH -- at least by default -- is that the user may have multiple copies of Python installed. I know I have at least one machine with 2.4.5, 2.5.2, 2.6b2 and 3.0b2 installed -- and I don't want any of them in my path.

Why ? you have them under Linux, through different names (python2.4, python2.5, etc) maybe this should be the same under Windows, e.g. having a common directory where all Python installations add a binary with a specific name, and same thing for binaries in Scripts, (easy_install-2.4, easy_install-2.5)

a /usr/local/bin for Windows in a way... system32 ?

Tarek

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