Maxim Doucet <maxim.doucet@gmail.com> added the comment: Shouldn't there be an update of the 2.6 documentation too? After your patch, the 2.7 reflects the existence of the "--user" option (see http://docs.python.org/release/2.7.3/install/index.html#alternate-installati...) but not the 2.6 documentation (http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.8/install/index.html#alternate-installati...). In my personal experience, I used the "--home" option with python 2.6 to mimic what "--user" does and it took me 2 weeks to, by chance, stumble upon http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ which informed me that the "--user" option was originally available for python 2.6. If it had been on the 2.6 documentation, it would have been easier and more coherent IMHO. ---------- nosy: +maximd _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8617> _______________________________________