Ever wanted to release a cool new app but found it difficult to add its location to PATH for users? Me too! This tool does that for you on all major operating systems and does not require elevated privileges!

Fear not, this only modifies the user PATH; the system PATH is never touched nor even looked at!

userpath is distributed on PyPI as a universal wheel and is available on Linux/macOS and Windows and supports Python 2.7/3.6+ and PyPy. :

$ pip install userpath

Only 3! :

$ userpath -h
Usage: userpath [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --version   Show the version and exit.
  -h, --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  append   Appends to the user PATH
  prepend  Prepends to the user PATH
  verify   Checks if locations are in the user PATH

>>> import userpath
>>> location = r'C:\Users\Ofek\Desktop\test'
>>>
>>> userpath.in_current_path(location)
False
>>> userpath.in_new_path(location)
False
>>> userpath.append(location)
True
>>> userpath.in_new_path(location)
True
>>> userpath.need_shell_restart(location)
True

userpath is distributed under the terms of both

• MIT License
• Apache License, Version 2.0

at your option.

Important changes are emphasized.

• Fix PATH registry key type on Windows

• Fix duplicating system paths on Windows
• Prevent adding paths multiple times on macOS/Linux
• Send CLI errors to stderr instead of stdout

• Only require the dependency distro on Linux
• Ship tests with source distributions

• Added support for shell auto-detection and selection

• First public stable release

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