[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

[Bill Janssen]

Oleg Broytmann writes:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:31:42AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > I think both for UI reasons (given above) and for API reasons (given
> > by others) there should be a separate ~/SOMETHING/{bin,etc,lib,share}
> > hierarchy for user-specific packaged contents.  I like ~/.local a
> > little better than ~/local, but both work for me.
> 
>    Having ~/.python allows me remove it with just one command. It's harder
> to clear ~/.local/{bin,lib} without affecting whatever I want to preserve
> there.

Good point, but I prefer ~/Library/Python to either of these.

Bill