Sep-16-2018, 08:31 PM
I just installed Python 3.7.0 on a Windows machine. Why does the default install put py.exe, pyw.exe, and pyshellext.amd64.dll in the \\Windows directory? That's very, very bad. No application (ie. Python) has any busy screwing around with the OS files/dirs. When you install on Linux do you mess around with /sbin? Linux /sbin is the same as Windows \\Windows. You should not be putting things in either of those locations. Why not move those 3 files to the installed location for Python370. Since it's in the path ahead of windows they should load and work just fine. This can also create huge problems if you have multiple versions of Python installed (Py3, Py2, Anaconda2, Anaconda3). Putting files in the \\Windows dir is just bad programming. Please correct or tell me why such a bad policy.