[Python-Dev] congrats on 3.5! Alas, windows 7 users are having problems installing it

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:56:54 -0000, Brett Cannon writes:
>I don't see any issue opened about Windows 7 installation issues, so if
>someone who has had the issue can thus can help Steve diagnose the problem
>that would be great (Steve is also currently on vacation so having this all
>in a bug that he can read when he gets back would also help).

>> Same here. I get a "0x80240017 error" during installation.

Wearing my webmaster hat I talked to somebody who had this error with
their windows 8.1 install.  They wrote back that they had found this
on the net and following the sequence of things to do called 'Method
1'in http://wind8apps.com/error-0x80240017-windows/

fixed things  for them.

Laura