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

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Wed Jan 16 03:24:41 CET 2008

Bill Janssen wrote: > Good point, but I prefer ~/Library/Python to either of these.

~/Library/ is a Mac OS X thing. I haven't seen it on other Unix systems. I could add yet another environment variable PYTHONUSERHOME to set the base path but I prefer not. Christian

Sure, but it's clearly where this should be on an OS X system, by default. And I'm sure there's a different "best place" on Windows (for instance, all of our accounts are network roaming accounts, and you don't want to put anything in ~). And there are probably various right places for various flavors of Linux.

Any PEP on this that doesn't take these OS-specific differences into account probably isn't worth reading, IMO.

Bill

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