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Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts?

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From Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date 2014-02-20 15:44 +0000
Subject Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 20 February 2014 15:34, Piotr Dobrogost
<p@google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:22:53 PM UTC+1, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>
>> You can find the default location in this roundabout way:
>
> I'm wondering if there's some API to get this info as what you showed is really roundabout way to achieve the goal...

There may be something that I don't know of. Distutils is generally
pretty clunky though if you're not trying to do one of the exact
things it was designed to do.


Oscar

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Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> - 2014-02-20 06:27 -0800
  Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-02-20 10:11 -0500
  Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 15:22 +0000
    Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> - 2014-02-20 07:34 -0800
      Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-02-20 10:42 -0500
        Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> - 2014-02-20 07:55 -0800
      Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 15:44 +0000
      Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 15:55 +0000
      Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-02-20 11:26 -0500
      Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> - 2014-02-21 06:12 -0800

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