[Python-Dev] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sun May 4 18:24:38 CEST 2008

Jesse Noller schrieb:

One thing that could be done is pick a default name for the parent, ala ~/Python - but let users override it with an environment variable if they so desire (PYTHONUSERDIR?) so that those who want it hidden can have it hidden, and those of us who don't, don't.

Has anybody read my PEP or do I need a Christian's English to real English converter? g

From my PEP 370:

The path to the user base directory can be overwritten with the environment variable PYTHONUSERBASE. The default location is used when PYTHONUSERBASE is not set or empty.

PYTHONUSERBASE defaults to ~/.local/ on Unix. In order to install packages in ~/lib, ~/bin etc directly you can do

export PYTHONUSERBASE=$HOME

in your .bashrc or .profile.

Christian

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