On Dec 12, 2012 7:24 PM, "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 12/12/2012 7:27 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:10 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 2012-12-12 23:33, Lennart Regebro wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As a Windows user, I would like there to be one tz data file used by all >>>>> Python versions on my machine, including ones included with other apps. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That would be nice, but where would that be installed? There is no >>>> standard location for zoneinfo files. And do we really want to install >>>> python-specific files outside the Python tree? > > > There is no 'Python tree' on windows. Rather, there is a separate tree for each version, located where the user directs. > > Windows used to have a %APPDATA% directory variable. Not sure about Win 7, let alone 8. Martin and others should know better. > > Or ask the user where to put it. I know where I would choose, and it would not be on my C drive. Un-installers would not delete (unless a reference count were kept and were decremented to 0). > > >>> Python version x.y is installed into, say, C:\Pythonxy, so perhaps a >>> good place would be, say, C:\Python. >> >> >> C:\ProgramData\Python > > > Making a new top-level directory without asking is obnoxious.
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9518890/what-is-the-significance-programdata-in-windows
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