On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 11:33, Thomas Grainger <tagr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A practical approach may be to develop some form of library that "hides" > the difference behind some form of API for finding the correct value, get > that added to the stdlib and wait a few years until it's adopted everywhere > (because it's so well-designed and convenient ;-)) Then, you can change the > location. > > Is this the canonical location of this information? > > https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Lib/sysconfig.py#L56 > In theory, yes. In practice, if that worked, we wouldn't get people asking about changing this in the first place... Non-Python programs can get the script location from sysconfig using py -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('scripts'))" But yes, it's likely that sysconfig *is* that API - it's just that for whatever reason, people haven't adopted it well enough that we can afford to change the location without breaking things. Which makes this more of a social problem than a technical one (get people to use sysconfig and the problem goes away). Paul
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