# \[Issue with Python package documentation\] Paths provided here seems misleading

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/issue-with-python-package-documentation-paths-provided-here-seems-misleading/5892
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [November 26, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/issue-with-python-package-documentation-paths-provided-here-seems-misleading/5892 "2020-11-26T06:05:51Z")
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### Author: ![denny2001](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/denny2001/32/5383_2.png) [@denny2001](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/denny2001)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/issue-with-python-package-documentation-paths-provided-here-seems-misleading/5892/1 "2020-11-26T06:05:51Z")

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In this [Paraview Python Tutorial Page](https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/python/quick-start.html#getting-started), multiple paths are offered to be put into PATH/PYTHONPATH. However, these paths didn’t work when simply pasted to system PATH.

I guess the paths are provided only as a **sample** , therefore several necessary modifications should be implemented to make it actually work. Without this information, this tutorial for setting up paths may be misleading.

I may therefore suggest the following updates be made to the documentation ( **if my guess was right** ):

1. Explicitly warn that this path is only a sample path, and provide a more general path formula, or ways to obtain this path.
2. Sample path and/or path formula for windows users.

Thank you!