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Author maximd
Recipients christian.heimes, dabrahams, docs@python, eric.araujo, maximd, python-dev, r.david.murray, tarek
Date 2012-05-09.15:38:47
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Shouldn't there be an update of the 2.6 documentation too?

After your patch, the 2.7 reflects the existence of the "--user" option (see http://docs.python.org/release/2.7.3/install/index.html#alternate-installation-the-user-scheme) but not the 2.6 documentation (http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.8/install/index.html#alternate-installation).

In my personal experience, I used the "--home" option with python 2.6 to mimic what "--user" does and it took me 2 weeks to, by chance, stumble upon http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ which informed me that the "--user" option was originally available for python 2.6. If it had been on the 2.6 documentation, it would have been easier and more coherent IMHO.
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2012-05-09 15:38:48maximdsetrecipients: + maximd, christian.heimes, tarek, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, docs@python, dabrahams, python-dev
2012-05-09 15:38:48maximdsetmessageid: <1336577928.24.0.96951593026.issue8617@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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