On 26 April 2018 at 21:18, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> If my memory is correct, this is the default for path directories. > > The Python entries do, as added by the Windows Installer written by a > Microsoft engineer, so this must at least be a correct alternative.
It's definitely acceptable - there's no doubt the pip 10.0.1 behaviour is a bug (that's been fixed). No-one is arguing otherwise. The suggestion to remove the backslashes was nothing more than a workaround that can be used until the next release of pip. Paul -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list