[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57 (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Wed Jan 16 02:23:50 CET 2008


Oleg Broytmann writes:

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:31:42AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > I think both for UI reasons (given above) and for API reasons (given > by others) there should be a separate ~/SOMETHING/{bin,etc,lib,share} > hierarchy for user-specific packaged contents. I like ~/.local a > little better than ~/local, but both work for me.

Having ~/.python allows me remove it with just one command. It's harder to clear ~/.local/{bin,lib} without affecting whatever I want to preserve there.

Good point, but I prefer ~/Library/Python to either of these.

Bill



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