Possible missing symlink to `lib64` in user path schema on Linux Fedora 43, Python 3.14.2
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Bug report
Bug description:
I'm not sure if this is distribution specific problem or something is broken in the core, so I'm filing it here first. I'm also not sure if it's CPython per se or needs to go into PyPA (pip etc).
Python 3.14.2 (main, Dec 5 2025, 00:00:00) [GCC 15.2.1 20251111 (Red Hat 15.2.1-4)] on linux
>>> pprint.pprint(sysconfig.get_paths("posix_user"))
{'data': '/home/arcivanov/.local',
'include': '/home/arcivanov/.local/include/python3.14',
'platlib': '/home/arcivanov/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages',
'platstdlib': '/home/arcivanov/.local/lib64/python3.14',
'purelib': '/home/arcivanov/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages',
'scripts': '/home/arcivanov/.local/bin',
'stdlib': '/home/arcivanov/.local/lib64/python3.14'}
>>> pprint.pprint(sysconfig.get_paths("venv"))
{'data': '/usr',
'include': '/usr/include/python3.14',
'platinclude': '/usr/include/python3.14',
'platlib': '/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages',
'platstdlib': '/usr/lib64/python3.14',
'purelib': '/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages',
'scripts': '/usr/bin',
'stdlib': '/usr/lib64/python3.14'}
>>>
Firstly, in the posix_user the platlib goes into lib, whereas in venv everything that isn't pure is going into lib64.
Secondly, in the venv, this doesn't really matter due to there being a symlink from lib64 to lib. However, in the posix_user the lib64 is simply missing from /home/arcivanov/.local/ while being referenced in posix_user schema as something that should exist.
Venv:
drwxr-xr-x 1 arcivanov arcivanov 374 Dec 9 09:34 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 arcivanov arcivanov 69 Dec 9 09:34 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x 1 arcivanov arcivanov 0 Dec 9 09:34 include
drwxr-xr-x 1 arcivanov arcivanov 22 Dec 9 09:34 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 arcivanov arcivanov 3 Dec 9 09:34 lib64 -> lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 arcivanov arcivanov 305 Dec 9 09:34 pyvenv.cfg
CPython versions tested on:
3.14
Operating systems tested on:
Linux
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported sysconfig.get_paths("posix_user") and sysconfig.get_paths("venv") results on Linux Fedora 43 with Python 3.14.2, then compare the user and venv path schemas and their lib/lib64 behavior. Done means establishing whether posix_user should create or reference lib64, and documenting or correcting the behavior with regression coverage if the repository identifies an expected result.
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- python
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- Issue type
- Bug
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- Newbie friendliness
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