[IronPython] Default install location and site-packages

Dino Viehland dinov at microsoft.com
Tue Oct 6 18:47:19 CEST 2009


Michael wrote:
> I don't have an obvious solution (per user site-packages perhaps?) but
> present the problem. Python circumvents this problem by *not* installing
> into "Program Files".

I would actually say that CPython seems to circumvent this by allowing
users to write to its installation directory.  Interestingly it does not 
allow modifying the existing files (e.g. I can't modify site.py w/ out
elevating to admin, just as I can't create files at C:\ w/o elevating
to admin).





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