Why is pylaucher in Python 3.3 being installed in Windows folder?
Ian Kelly
ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 23:21:52 EDT 2012
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:13:10 -0700, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>
>> Why is pylauncher in Python 3.3 being installed in Windows folder and
>> not in Program Files folder? Installing into Windows folder was maybe
>> acceptable 10 years ago but not now...
>
> Read the PEP:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/
The PEP explains why it's in the Windows folder as opposed to the
System32 folder, but not why either of those locations should be
preferable to Program Files.
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