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

Steve Dower Steve.Dower at microsoft.com
Tue Feb 10 15:13:52 CET 2015

I was also surprised as I was working on the installer, so +1 on changing it.

The installer will also need some changes to add it to PATH, which should be fairly straightforward, but ping me if you need/want pointers. (It's checked in now, so I consider it fair game for anyone who wants to change it.)

Cheers, Steve

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From: Paul Moore<mailto:p.f.moore at gmail.com> Sent: ‎2/‎10/‎2015 5:40 To: Nick Coghlan<mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com> Cc: Python Dev<mailto:python-dev at python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

On 10 February 2015 at 13:34, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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

That's actually a point I missed making. While I wouldn't class myself as "typical", when I went looking for the user-scripts directory on my machine, I automatically looked in %APPDATA%\PythonXY. I suspect that many people would assume this was how it worked anyway, and be surprised by the current behaviour.

Paul

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