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Author zooko
Recipients tarek, zooko
Date 2009-07-23.20:09:19
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The distutils looks in an environment variable named "HOME" on Windows:

http://docs.python.org/install/#location-and-names-of-config-files

Windows does not by default create such a variable, so only if a user
has manually configured one will it work.  The standard variable for
this purpose on Windows appears to be spelled "USERPROFILE":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable
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Date User Action Args
2009-07-23 20:09:21zookosetrecipients: + zooko, tarek
2009-07-23 20:09:21zookosetmessageid: <1248379761.36.0.601035706586.issue6556@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-07-23 20:09:20zookolinkissue6556 messages
2009-07-23 20:09:19zookocreate