Initial value of sys.path

[Mark Hammond]

> > From:	Mark Hammond [SMTP:MarkH at ActiveState.com]
> > Paul Moore wrote:
> > > The initial value for sys.path on WIndows is signiicantly different
> > > from that on Unix. Specifically, there is no site-packages directory
> > > on Windows.
> >
> > I believe the deliberate decision was simply to "leave windows alone".
> > It wasn't clear at the time how useful the site packages would truly
> > turn out to be, and Windows already had special registry support.
>
> I'd be very interested to know why this is.

I'm sorry, but which part are you still unclear on?  Why our foresight isn't
as good as our hindsight?

Mark.