For most Linux environments, Python is installed under /usr/local , and the libraries can be found there. For Mac OS, the home directory is under /Library/Frameworks/Python. framework . PYTHONPATH is used to add directories to the path.

Where does Python get installed?

Press Start in the lower left corner of your display; press Search; in the search window, press all files and folders; in the top textline that appears, type python.exe; press the Search button. After several minutes, the folder where Python is installed will be listed — that folder name is the path to Python.

Where is Python installed in Unix?

Consider the possiblities that in a different machine, python may be installed at /usr/bin/python or /bin/python in those cases, #!/usr/local/bin/python will fail. For those cases, we get to call the env executable with argument which will determine the arguments path by searching in the $PATH and use it correctly.