[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32 (original) (raw)

Scott Dial scott+python-dev at scottdial.com
Wed Mar 14 16:09:48 CET 2012

On 3/13/2012 9:57 PM, VanL wrote:

On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:37 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

The installation will end up in

c:\python33\lib\python3.3 which has the software name and version twice in the path. Do we really need this? We already have this. The only difference in this proposal is that we go from pyversionnodot to pyversionshort, i.e. from c:\python33\lib\python33 to c:\python33\lib\python3.3 Given that we already repeat it, isn't it better to be consistent?

Is it?

I think you are confusing two different configuration sections in sysconfig.cfg:

[nt] stdlib = {base}/Lib platstdlib = {base}/Lib purelib = {base}/Lib/site-packages platlib = {base}/Lib/site-packages include = {base}/Include platinclude = {base}/Include scripts = {base}/Scripts data = {base}

[nt_user] stdlib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot} platstdlib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot} purelib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}/site-packages platlib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}/site-packages include = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}/Include scripts = {userbase}/Scripts data = {userbase}

-- Scott Dial scott at scottdial.com

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