On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:05 PM, John S. James <john2ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed 3.5.0 today and it's working fine -- either from the command
> prompt, or running a .py script.
>
> But the Python 3.4 that was previously installed on the computer had a
> Python34 folder, which contained DDLs, Doc, include, Lib, and various other
> folders and files. I haven't found a comparable Python35 folder anywhere. I'd
> like to find the 3.5 Doc folder at least.
>
> I looked for the installation directory using the command prompt, but at
> c:\Users\(my name)\ there is no AppData.
>
> Where can I find that folder? Or can I just ignore it for now (and get the
> documentation elsewhere)?
Python 3.5 changed the default install directory on Windows to better
fit in with other Windows software and to alleviate security concerns
(C:\Python34, for example, is world-writable, whereas C:\Program
Files\Python 3.5\, which is the new default all-users install
location, can only be written to by administrators). True per-user
installs are now also possible, and install to your user directory.
You can find where Python is installed using Python itself: try `py
-3.5 -c "import sys, os;os.system('explorer ' + sys.prefix)"` at the
Command Prompt, which uses the Python Launcher for Windows to start
Python 3.5 and execute a command to start a Windows Explorer instance
in the directory containing Python.
By the way, C:\Users\(your name)\AppData does exist, but is hidden by
default. It will tab-complete, though; at Command Prompt do `dir
C:\Users\(your name)\App<tab>`.
You can also get always-up-to-date documentation from
https://docs.python.org/3.5/. There's also a download page at
https://docs.python.org/3.5/download.html if you prefer a local copy
of one of the various formats available there.
Hope this helps,
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Zach
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