On 10 November 2017 at 11:37, Oleg Broytman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 07:48:35AM +0100, Michel Desmoulin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On linux you >> can't pip install, you need --users, admin rights or a virtualenv. > > Isn't it the same on Windows? For an admin-installed Python you need > --users, admin rights or a virtualenv. And a user-installed Python on > Windows is equivalen to a user-compiled Python on Linux -- pip installs > packages to the user-owned site-packages directory.
It is - but the default install on Windows (using the python.org installer) is a per-user install. So beginners don't encounter admin-installed Python (unless they ask for it, in which case they made the choice so they should understand the implications ;-)) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
