[Python-Dev] PEP: per user site-packages directory

[Walter Dörwald]

Christian Heimes wrote:

> [...] 
> PEP: XXX
> Title: Per user site-packages directory
> Version: $Revision$
> Last-Modified: $Date$
> Author: Christian Heimes <christian(at)cheimes(dot)de>
> Status: Draft
> Type: Standards Track
> Content-Type: text/x-rst
> Created: 11-Jan-2008
> Python-Version: 2.6, 3.0
> Post-History:
> [...] 
> user site directory
> 
>    A site directory inside the users' home directory. An user site
>    directory is specific to a Python version. The path contains
>    the version number (major and minor only).
> 
>    Windows: %APPDATA%/Python/Python26/site-packages
>    Mac: ~/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
>    Unix: ~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> 
> 
> user configuration directory
> 
>    Usually the parent directory of the user site directory. It's meant
>    for Python version specific data like config files.
> 
>    Windows: %APPDATA%/Python/Python26
>    Mac: ~/Library/Python/2.6
>    Unix: ~/.local/lib/python2.6

So if I'm using the --user option, where would scripts be installed? 
Would this be:

Windows: %APPDATA%/Python/Python26/bin
Mac: ~/Library/Python/2.6/bin
Unix: ~/.local/lib/python2.6/bin

I'd like to be able to switch between several versions of my user 
installation simply by changing a link. (On the Mac I'm doing this by 
relinking ~/Library/Python to different directories.)

Servus,
    Walter