Programmatically determine pip 'user install' location Scripts directory

Question

As explained in pip\'s documentation a user can install packages in his personal account using pip install --user .

How can I programmatical

Answer 1

I believe the following should give the expected result

import os
import sysconfig

user_scripts_path = sysconfig.get_path('scripts', f'{os.name}_user')
print(user_scripts_path)

But it might be that pip uses a different logic internally (probably based on distutils), but the results should still be the same.

References

• https://docs.python.org/3/library/sysconfig.html#installation-paths
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.name