New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx <zo...@zooko.com>: The distutils looks in an environment variable named "HOME" on Windows:
http://docs.python.org/install/#location-and-names-of-config-files Windows does not by default create such a variable, so only if a user has manually configured one will it work. The standard variable for this purpose on Windows appears to be spelled "USERPROFILE": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils messages: 90861 nosy: tarek, zooko severity: normal status: open title: "HOME" is not a standard environment variable on Windows _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6556> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com