[Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 14:34:57 CET 2015

On 10 Feb 2015 22:40, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

tl;dr - Having a shared per-user scripts directory on Windows (%APPDATA%/Python/Scripts) causes a number of potential issues when users install the same package in multiple Python versions. I'd like to suggest that this be changed to a versioned directory (%APPDATA%/PythonXY/Scripts) to match all other Python directories on Windows. This issue originally started as a discussion on the pip tracker around making --user the default for pip. See https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1668 for details.

For the reasons Paul gives, I'm personally +1 on making the change.

I was actually surprised it didn't already work that way, given that almost everything else on Windows is version specific.

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