Installation problem

[eryksun]

On 10/8/15, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:30 eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Probably it's just an oversight. I doubt Steve Dower would have
purposefully decided to not set the "App Paths" key.