Windows installation problem with 3.3.5

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Mar 10 05:32:35 EDT 2014


On 10/03/2014 08:40, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 03:16, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> It looks as if the upgrade from 3.3.4 to 3.3.5 has stolen my copies of
>> py.exe and pyw.exe from c:\windows.  Before I raise an issue on the bug
>> tracker could someone please confirm this, as it wouldn't be the first
>> time I've managed to screw something up.
>
> <random ill-educated guesswork>
> One thing does occur to me: I seem to remember that you have in the past
> installed py[w].exe from Vinay's standalone installer. If that was the
> case, it's presumably possible that some mechanism of the Python 3.3.5
> .msi removed them and didn't replace them with its own versions?
> </random ill-educated guesswork>
>
> TJG
>

Correct.  I'll flag this on the bug tracker just in case this is in fact 
the cause, though I can't off of the top of my head see why it should be.

-- 
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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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