10 Nov
2017
10 Nov
'17
11:51 a.m.
On 10 November 2017 at 11:37, Oleg Broytman
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 07:48:35AM +0100, Michel Desmoulin
wrote: On linux you can't pip install, you need --users, admin rights or a virtualenv.
Isn't it the same on Windows? For an admin-installed Python you need --users, admin rights or a virtualenv. And a user-installed Python on Windows is equivalen to a user-compiled Python on Linux -- pip installs packages to the user-owned site-packages directory.
It is - but the default install on Windows (using the python.org installer) is a per-user install. So beginners don't encounter admin-installed Python (unless they ask for it, in which case they made the choice so they should understand the implications ;-)) Paul