Terry Reedy
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On 12/12/2012 7:27 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:10 PM, MRAB <
> wrote: >> On 2012-12-12 23:33, Lennart Regebro wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Terry Reedy <
> 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. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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