remove path forever

[Thomas Jollans]

On 2017-09-07 16:25, Andrej Viktorovich wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 September 2017 14:35:58 UTC+3, eryk sun  wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Andrej Viktorovich
>> <viktorovichandrej at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have 64 bit python on my windows 10 machine. Install contains 32 bit python libs in path
>>> and I would like to remove them.
>>>
>>> I do
>>> imprt sys
>>> sys.path.remove("C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36-32")
>>>
>>> It works for current python instance, but paths appears in new one. How to remove paths forever?
>>
>> Probably you have the Python36-32 directories set in PYTHONPATH. For
>> some reason some people think they need to add standard directories to
>> this environment variable, which is something you should never do.
> 
> Yes, my PYTHONPATH looks like: 
> C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32
> C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\DLLs
> C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib
> 
> Should I remove them? I suppose installer did so. But why 64 bit installer skiped this?

Remove them and then check that your 32-bit python installation still works.


-- Thomas