[Tutor] Installing python

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 20:07:53 EDT 2018


On 02/11/2018 22:49, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 02/11/2018 21:13, Roger Lea Scherer wrote:
> 
>> I have installed python 3.7 on my computer Windows10
>> (C:\Users\Roger\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37),
> 
> Caveat: I'm no expert on modern Windoze.
> But... That looks like the wrong path to me.
> 
> My Windows install is usually either in
> 
> C:\Python...
> or
> C:\Program files\Python...
> 
> Depending on distro...
> 

The C:\Users... path has been the standard for some time for a single 
user install.  C:\Python was binned some years back for security reasons 
whilst C:\Program Files\Python... was added for security reasons.

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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence



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