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Author eryksun
Recipients docs@python, eryksun, firatozgul, lac, steve.dower, zach.ware
Date 2015-11-28.10:38:44
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> LOCALAPPDATA is set by the operating system, typically to 
> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local (at least since Vista I
> think? Certainly since Win7

Vista introduced LOCALAPPDATA, so there's no problem referencing it in the docs for 3.5+. 

On a related note, section 3.4.4.1 [1] could be changed to use %LOCALAPPDATA% instead of referring to the shell function SHGetFolderPath and CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA. 

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3.5/using/windows.html#customization-via-ini-files
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