---
id: userpath
version: "1.9.2"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: dormant
---

# userpath — Cross-platform tool for adding locations to the user PATH

License: permissive · Maintenance: dormant · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install userpath
uv add userpath
poetry add userpath

## Description

# userpath

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This is a tool for modifying a user's `PATH`.

**Table of Contents**

- [Installation](#installation)
- [CLI](#cli)
- [API](#api)
- [License](#license)

## Installation

```console
pip install userpath
```

## CLI

```console
$ userpath -h
Usage: userpath [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

userpath modifies a user's PATH environment variable across platforms, providing both CLI and Python API methods to append, prepend, or verify locations in the user's PATH.

Verdict: userpath is a lightweight, permissively licensed tool for cross-platform PATH manipulation with no known vulnerabilities. Its dormant status and lack of recent activity are offset by broad Python version support and a simple, stable API. Suitable for scripting and tooling that needs to modify user PATH without external complications.

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