Installation problem

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:30 eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/8/15, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>
> What happens if you do [Windows] + R (ie Start > Run), enter "python"
> and click OK?

The new installer for 3.5 doesn't create an "App Paths" key for
"python.exe" like the old installer used to do (see the old
Tools/msi/msi.py). Without that, unless python.exe is in the search
PATH, "Win+R -> python" and running "start python" in the command
prompt won't work. You can of course add the key manually as the
default value for
"[HKLM|HKCU]\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\python.exe". IMO, this makes it the 'system' Python.



That's interesting. Any idea why it changed?

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Oscar
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