# Remove outdated Tools/scripts/ scripts

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571>\
**Category:** Core Development\
**Created:** [September 29, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571 "2022-09-29T14:17:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-outdated-tools-scripts-scripts/19571/20 "2022-09-30T13:43:54Z")

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> [@vstinner](#):
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> Is `win_add2path.py` used by the Windows installer?

“win\_add2path.py” is not used by the installer. I don’t know whether any project uses this script. [PR 1645](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/1645) improves it in several ways, but this PR has been open for over 5 years without getting merged. The one thing this script does that the installer doesn’t do is add the user scripts directory to `PATH`. That’s for `--user` installations, which pip enables automatically if it isn’t permitted to install to the system site packages.

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