Python Windows Installation

[Fuzzyman]

On Oct 25, 6:36 pm, TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba... at aol.com> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 11:22 pm, Tim Roberts <t... at probo.com> wrote:
>
> > TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba... at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > >I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into the
> > >root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 which it shows by default
> > >as what it plans to install to. Selecting D:\Python25 on a previous
> > >iteration put the exe in D:\ and did not create a Python25 directory.
>
> > Where did you get the installer?  I've installed Python on Windows many,
> > many times, and have never seen this issue.
> > --
> > Tim Roberts, t... at probo.com
> > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> from python.org.   I doubt many people get this or it would be fixed
> but it still is shocking how it can prompt me that the installation
> directory exists - showing that it fully knows where it is supposed to
> install it - and then go ahead and install it to the root directory
> and claim success. It also uninstalls Python if you ask it to so any
> screwy settings from a previous install should be removed after the
> uninstall, but it also fails to install correctly after an uninstall.

I've never had this problem with the Python.org windows installer.

However I did once use a machine where Python had been installed into
'c:\Program Files\Python24'. It caused no end of problems...

Michael Foord
http://www.manning.com/foord