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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:21:52 -0600
Subject: Re: Why is pylaucher in Python 3.3 being installed in Windows folder?
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:13:10 -0700, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>
>> Why is pylauncher in Python 3.3 being installed in Windows folder and
>> not in Program Files folder? Installing into Windows folder was maybe
>> acceptable 10 years ago but not now...
>
> Read the PEP:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/

The PEP explains why it's in the Windows folder as opposed to the
System32 folder, but not why either of those locations should be
preferable to Program Files.