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Author steve.dower
Recipients eryksun, ncoghlan, steve.dower, terry.reedy
Date 2015-03-11.20:41:57
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For a per-user install, the launcher does not go in C:\Windows (note that Python 3.4 does not really have per-users installs). The correct location for the ini file in every case is alongside the executable, and it must always be named "py.ini".

py.exe is put into C:\Windows because that directory will always be on PATH and has no 32-bit/64-bit redirection. The next best location would be a subdirectory of %CommonProgramFiles% and %CommonProgramFiles(x86)% and we'd probably need to install it twice.

The access denied message you got was because %LocalAppData% is a directory. Try doing:

> notepad %localappdata%\test.txt
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