[New-bugs-announce] [issue45992] distutils paths are scattered between PythonXY and PythonXY-32 on WoW64

[Tzu-ping Chung]

New submission from Tzu-ping Chung <uranusjr at gmail.com>:

Should be reproducible with a 32-bit Python 3.10 running on 64-bit Windows.

    $ py -3.10-32 -q
    >>> from distutils.command.install import install
    <stdin>:1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives
    >>> from distutils.dist import Distribution
    >>> c = install(Distribution())
    >>> c.user = 1
    >>> c.finalize_options()
    >>> for k in ('purelib', 'platlib', 'headers', 'scripts', 'data'):
    ...  print(f'{k}\t{getattr(c, "install_" + k)}')
    ...
    purelib C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310-32\site-packages
    platlib C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310-32\site-packages
    headers C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\Include\UNKNOWN
    scripts C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\Scripts
    data    C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python

This is different from sysconfig, where all files are placed in the *-32 suffix:

    >>> import sysconfig
    >>> for k in ('purelib', 'platlib', 'include', 'scripts', 'data'):
    ...  print(f'{k}\t{paths[k]}')
    ...
    purelib C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310-32\site-packages
    platlib C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310-32\site-packages
    include C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310-32\Include
    scripts C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310-32\Scripts
    data    C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python

And also different from Python 3.9 (and prior), which does not use the *-32 prefix:

    $ py -3.9-32 -q
    >>> from distutils.command.install import install
    >>> from distutils.dist import Distribution
    >>> c = install(Distribution())
    >>> c.user = 1
    >>> c.finalize_options()
    >>> for k in ('purelib', 'platlib', 'headers', 'scripts', 'data'):
    ...  print(f'{k}\t{getattr(c, "install_" + k)}')
    ...
    purelib C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages
    platlib C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages
    headers C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\Include\UNKNOWN
    scripts C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\Scripts
    data    C:\Users\uranusjr\AppData\Roaming\Python

It’s of course not a problem to change the prefix and add the *-32 suffix on 3.10 (since the only thing that’s important is to have a consistent prefix for a given version), but the change should likely need to be applied consistently. I think we should fix distutils to match sysconfig?

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components: Distutils, Windows
messages: 407769
nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, uranusjr, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils paths are scattered between PythonXY and PythonXY-32 on WoW64
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11

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