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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:29:07 +0200, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:


> 
> %APPDATA%/Python/Python26/site-packages
> 
> may be a good place for the pth-file (I'm not on Windows and too lazy to 
> figure out where %APPDATA% actually is. The PEP 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ may help)

	%APPDATA% is a user specific directory, on WinXP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data

	If PEP-370 has been implemented, I'm running too old of a Python for
it <G>; my site.py doesn't have the control logic for it.
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