On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:15 PM Barry Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The main limitation is that users can not write config file in install > > location when Python is installed for system, not for user. > > This is the problem that I was thinking about when I proposed using > a py.ini like solution where the file is looked for in the users config > folder. > I think that is the %LOCALAPPDATA% folder for py.exe. > > As Chris points out in his summary of the issue. > > How would this work for different version of python being installed and > needing different config?
Each installation have each config file. > How would this work for python installed from different vendors? > Vendor installer should provide an option for it. > Maybe the answer is that there is only one user defined override possible and > all versions use it. > > Also am I right to assume that the impact of these changes would only impact > on Windows? > I think we don't have any reason to restrict this for Windows. But since this idea is proposed only for Windows users, only Windows installer will have "Enable UTF-8 mode" option. -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A33F3EH3DZGF5F6GC3ZGWPVBTIZISJCI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
