Installed 3.5.0 successfully on Windows 10, but where is DDLs, Doc, Lib, etc?

[John S James]

Thank you, this is very helpful.

John

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:05 PM, John S. James <john2james at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I installed 3.5.0 today and it's working fine -- either from the command
> prompt, or running a .py script.
> >
> > But the Python 3.4 that was previously installed on the computer had a
> Python34 folder, which contained DDLs, Doc, include, Lib, and various other
> folders and files. I haven't found a comparable Python35 folder anywhere.
> I'd like to find the 3.5 Doc folder at least.
> >
> > I looked for the installation directory using the command prompt, but at
> c:\Users\(my name)\ there is no AppData.
> >
> > Where can I find that folder? Or can I just ignore it for now (and get
> the documentation elsewhere)?
>
> Python 3.5 changed the default install directory on Windows to better
> fit in with other Windows software and to alleviate security concerns
> (C:\Python34, for example, is world-writable, whereas C:\Program
> Files\Python 3.5\, which is the new default all-users install
> location, can only be written to by administrators).  True per-user
> installs are now also possible, and install to your user directory.
>
> You can find where Python is installed using Python itself: try `py
> -3.5 -c "import sys, os;os.system('explorer ' + sys.prefix)"` at the
> Command Prompt, which uses the Python Launcher for Windows to start
> Python 3.5 and execute a command to start a Windows Explorer instance
> in the directory containing Python.
>
> By the way, C:\Users\(your name)\AppData does exist, but is hidden by
> default.  It will tab-complete, though; at Command Prompt do `dir
> C:\Users\(your name)\App<tab>`.
>
> You can also get always-up-to-date documentation from
> https://docs.python.org/3.5/.  There's also a download page at
> https://docs.python.org/3.5/download.html if you prefer a local copy
> of one of the various formats available there.
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
> Zach
>



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