"Alternatively, is there a file somewhere inside my existing python-2.7 distro that I could hack such that those backslashes are replaced by forward slashes ?"
>>> import site
>>> site.getsitepackages()
['/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-pa
+ckages']

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locate sysconfig.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distlib/_backport/sysconfig.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distlib/_backport/sysconfig.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/sysconfig.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/sysconfig.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.4/sysconfig.py
/usr/lib/python3.4/distutils/sysconfig.py

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That's on Linux, but the premise is the same for Windows. Briefly looking at the _getuserbase() code within the /usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py file, the result may be coming from somewhere in the os.path method (os.py file), and I suspect that hacking it to do what you want will take quite some effort to make it consistent, while not breaking other stuff.

As mentioned already by thanos1983, modifying the result as it is returned to you, or overriding the method may be your best and/or safest bet.

In reply to Re: [OT++] Seeking Win32 Python Wisdom by stevieb
in thread [OT++] Seeking Win32 Python Wisdom by syphilis

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