[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Fri Jan 18 12:09:24 CET 2008


Suraj Barkale wrote:
> Can this be changed into using %APPDATA% by default and changing to
> %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% based on some MSI switch?

I'll stick to APPDATA but I'm going to introduce a new env var
PYTHONUSERBASE. It overwrites the path to the base directory and allows
users (and companies) to adjust the user directory for all Python versions.

Christian



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