Initial value of sys.path

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Mark Hammond [SMTP:MarkH at ActiveState.com]
> Paul Moore wrote:
> > The initial value for sys.path on WIndows is signiicantly different
> > from that on Unix. Specifically, there is no site-packages directory
> > on Windows.
> 
> I believe the deliberate decision was simply to "leave windows alone". 
> It wasn't clear at the time how useful the site packages would truly 
> turn out to be, and Windows already had special registry support.
 
I'd be very interested to know why this is. I have set up a site directory
under my Python directory, added to my Python path, and put all my
additional modules and packages there. It works fine, and makes the whole
set-up *much* neater.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk
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