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

[Bill Janssen]

> Bill Janssen wrote:
> > Good point, but I prefer ~/Library/Python to either of these.
> 
> ~/Library/ is a Mac OS X thing. I haven't seen it on other Unix systems.
> I *could* add yet another environment variable PYTHONUSERHOME to set the
> base path but I prefer not.
> 
> Christian

Sure, but it's clearly where this should be on an OS X system, by
default.  And I'm sure there's a different "best place" on Windows
(for instance, all of our accounts are network roaming accounts, and
you don't want to put anything in ~).  And there are probably various
right places for various flavors of Linux.

Any PEP on this that doesn't take these OS-specific differences into
account probably isn't worth reading, IMO.

Bill