On 1/27/19, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:06:10 +0000, Sarah P <spad...@hotmail.com> declaimed > the following: > > C:\Users\Wulfraed>dir %userprofile%\appdata
Avoid hard coding default paths. The roaming and local application data directories are relocatable. It's even less typing to use the proper variable, e.g. "%localappdata%" vs "%userprofile%\appdata\local". Also, if you can remember this in CMD, you can just as easily type it in Explorer's location bar, which supports environment variables. Explorer even has a "shell:" protocol that's more reliable than environment variables, e.g. "shell:Local AppData" and "shell:UserProgramFiles". environment variables https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-variables.html shell: folders https://ss64.com/nt/shell.html more shell: folders https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/shell-commands-to-access-the-special-folders Side Note Thanks to Steve Dower, there's now a Microsoft Store app for Python 3.7 [1]. Feedback would be appreciated if you have a supported system (Windows 10 1809+, build 10.0.17763+). Notably, 3.7.2 has a new venv launcher for Windows. The launcher is named "python.exe" in the environment's "Scripts" directory, but it's not a copy of or symlink to the installed "python.exe". It works around the limited access of store apps by directly running the installed Python with a __PYVENV_LAUNCHER__ environment variable. This needs more testing. A significant bug has already been addressed for multiprocessing. [1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/python-37/9nj46sx7x90p -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
