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What are environment variables in Windows and what does they do? And why do we have to add an environment variable when we install any programming language in the PC?
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Hello Sachin007,
I am Jaspreet Singh.
Environment variables in simple terms define where a certain category of programs will store files (temp and permanent) where it will install files (install directory) and other crucial details.
So when you install any programming language for example python it will create an environment variable which will tell py files where they can install and where they will load/store the files.
In what aspect are you asking this information for? If you are looking at this from programming perspective I am afraid it is out of the scope of this community and you will get better answer at programming oriented community here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/answers/index....
User variables are for that particular user which is setting them up while system variable will be for all installed users.
Yes and telling it where to access files the programs using that environment variable requires such as user data etc.
So basically, we give an address to Python to send all the files, right?
