[Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

[Nick Coghlan]

On 10 Feb 2015 22:40, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> tl;dr - Having a shared per-user scripts directory on Windows
> (%APPDATA%/Python/Scripts) causes a number of potential issues when
> users install the same package in multiple Python versions. I'd like
> to suggest that this be changed to a versioned directory
> (%APPDATA%/PythonXY/Scripts) to match all other Python directories on
> Windows.
>
> This issue originally started as a discussion on the pip tracker
> around making --user the default for pip. See
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1668 for details.

For the reasons Paul gives, I'm personally +1 on making the change.

I was actually surprised it didn't already work that way, given that almost
everything else on Windows is version specific.

Cheers,
Nick.
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