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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 17:15:18 CET 2015

On 10 February 2015 at 12:38, 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.

Making the full detail explicit (based on a comment made on the pip issue), the default PATH should match the behaviour of sys.path (so that "pip" and "python -m pip" always execute the same thing).

So we have C:\PythonXY before %APPDATA%\PythonXY\Scripts before C:\PythonXY\Scripts (matching stdlib before user site-packages before system site-packages). And user site-packages is versioned because everything else is.

The PATH setting is purely an installer change, of course - only versioning the user scripts directory affects the core. Paul

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