Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
In Windows, dot files cannot be hidden (i.e. set the hidden file attribute), unlike how they're conventionally hidden in Unix. Doing so breaks normal access. A directory such as ".venv" can be hidden, but that's still going against convention. For Windows, I suggest using "$APPDATA/Python/venv.ini" as the default path. Note that, while "$APPDATA/Python" happens to be the base directory for per-user package installations, i.e. site.getuserbase(), I'm not suggesting to use the user base directory as the default in Unix and macOS systems. For comparison, pip uses "$APPDATA/pip/pip.ini" in Windows and "$HOME/.config/pip/pip.conf" in Unix. In macOS it prefers "$HOME/Library/Application Support/pip" over "$HOME/.config/pip" if the former exists. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38483> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
