<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:curt@hagenlocher.org">curt@hagenlocher.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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One other reason not to mess with the PATH -- at least by default --<br>
is that the user may have multiple copies of Python installed. I know<br>
I have at least one machine with 2.4.5, 2.5.2, 2.6b2 and 3.0b2<br>
installed -- and I don't want *any* of them in my path.</blockquote><div><br>Why ? you have them under Linux, through different names (python2.4, python2.5, etc)<br>maybe this should be the same under Windows, e.g. having a common directory where <br>
all Python installations add a binary with a specific name, and same thing for binaries in Scripts,<br>(easy_install-2.4, easy_install-2.5)<br><br>a /usr/local/bin for Windows in a way... system32 ?<br><br>Tarek<br></div>
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Curt Hagenlocher<br>
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