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Eryk Sun added the comment: I'm closing this issue as out of date. The tutorial now refers to the py command and also the python3.9 command from the app distribution. The patch's addition of "followed by Enter" after "Control-Z" is still needed, but it's not related to this issue.

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Eryk Sun added the comment: > LOCALAPPDATA is set by the operating system, typically to > C:\Users\\AppData\Local (at least since Vista I > think? Certainly since Win7 Vista introduced LOCALAPPDATA, so there's no problem referencing it in the docs for 3.5+. On a related note, section

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Firat Ozgul added the comment: Maybe that part of the tutorial should also include a link to https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html. This document contains all the details for using Python on Windows. -- ___ Python tracker

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Zachary Ware added the comment: Here's a patch to try to modernize the whole section a bit, and to remove one of the two other instances of 'Python35' in the docs (the other instance is in the docs for pyvenv, which needs its own overhaul in a separate issue). -- keywords: +patch

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Changes by Brett Cannon : -- nosy: +steve.dower ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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Steve Dower added the comment: That patch looks good to me. LOCALAPPDATA is set by the operating system, typically to C:\Users\\AppData\Local (at least since Vista I think? Certainly since Win7). While it's possible to customize it, people who know how to do that won't be emailing webmasters

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Laura Creighton added the comment: Where does it go if the user hasn't set %LOCALAPPDATA% ? -- nosy: +lac ___ Python tracker ___

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New submission from Firat Ozgul: Official documentation reads: "On Windows machines, the Python installation is usually placed in C:\Python35" However, as of Python 3.5.0, usual installation directory on Windows is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Python. -- assignee: docs@python components:

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Firat Ozgul added the comment: Correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I know, %LOCALAPPDATA% is always set in Windows. When you want to install Python for just one user (which is the default), files are installed into this directory (LOCALAPPDATA). If you choose to install Python for all

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Laura Creighton added the comment: I don't know the answer, but from the point of view of a webmaster who gets support requests and doesn't have a windows system, it would be very useful to already know where a person's python is supposed to be, and thus good if the documentation said something

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Firat Ozgul added the comment: Actually, under 'Using Python on Windows' at https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html, the documentation correctly refers to %LOCALAPPDATA% and %PROGRAMFILES% or %PROGRAMFILES(x86)% environment variables as the default installation directories for