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

Lindberg, Van Van.Lindberg at haynesboone.com
Fri Mar 16 16:08:33 CET 2012

Carl -

Changing the directory name is in fact a new and different (and much more invasive) special case, because distutils et al install scripts there, and that directory name is part of the distutils install scheme. Installers don't care where the Python binary is located, so moving it in with the other scripts has very little impact.

So would changing the distutils install scheme in 3.3 - as defined and declared by distutils - lead to a change in your code?

Alternatively stated, do you independently figure out that your virtualenv is on Windows and then put things in Scripts, etc, or do you use sysconfig? If sysconfig gave you different (consistent) values across platforms, how would that affect your code?

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