IDLE; Pythonwin and windows network drives

[Thomas Heller]

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?

Thomas