IDLE; Pythonwin and windows network drives

[David Fraser]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> Peter Maas <peter.maas at mplusr.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>There seem to be some issues with Pythonwin and network drives / UNC paths.
>>I observed recently that the install of pythonwin (build 201) failed with
>>a "freopen stderr" message. After moving the setup exe from an UNC path
>>to a local path everything worked fine. That happened on my Win2k/SP4
>>machine and the UNC path was on a Samba 3.0.4 server.
> 
> 
> That would probably be a bug in the bdist_wininst installer, but I
> cannot reproduce it.  Although I can only test with my WinXP machine,
> and UNC paths on Windows servers.
> 
> Can you or anyone else reproduce what you describe?
> 

I have had this bug, I think it may be related to reinstalling pythonwin 
on top of intself. I had it on Win2k, also installing from a samba server.

David