[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support. (original) (raw)
Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Dec 13 02:24:04 CET 2012
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On 12/12/2012 7:27 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:10 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
On 2012-12-12 23:33, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
As a Windows user, I would like there to be one tz data file used by all Python versions on my machine, including ones included with other apps.
That would be nice, but where would that be installed? There is no standard location for zoneinfo files. And do we really want to install python-specific files outside the Python tree?
There is no 'Python tree' on windows. Rather, there is a separate tree for each version, located where the user directs.
Windows used to have a %APPDATA% directory variable. Not sure about Win 7, let alone 8. Martin and others should know better.
Or ask the user where to put it. I know where I would choose, and it would not be on my C drive. Un-installers would not delete (unless a reference count were kept and were decremented to 0).
Python version x.y is installed into, say, C:\Pythonxy, so perhaps a good place would be, say, C:\Python. C:\ProgramData\Python
Making a new top-level directory without asking is obnoxious.
-- Terry Jan Reedy
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