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Mon Jan 5 22:30:13 CET 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-January/137692.html

On 05/01/2015 17:09, Steve Dower wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>> Steve is in essence saying that it's not possible to sanely manage PATH as part
>> of the new installer, but that py.exe makes that unnecessary.
>
> It's actually not possible to sanely manage PATH from any installer - it really needs to be handled by a user directly (though I can't ever bring myself to tell anyone to use the UI for it). The old installers were less susceptible because they didn't support per-user installs, but you'd still get the "last install Python wins" behaviour.
>

Something that's help keep me slightly sane is the Rapid Environment 
Editor http://www.rapidee.com/en/about.  I'm sure there are plenty of 
other choices but it does what I need.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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