foldername change killed python

Frank Huurman huurmanfrank at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 19:55:00 EDT 2015


Still doesn't work with the default path.
For some reason the script that worked 20 mins ago in IDLE using "import
win32com.client" can't find the module anymore so I messed it up somewhere.


2015-09-17 1:45 GMT+02:00 Frank Huurman <huurmanfrank at gmail.com>:

> Heya, I just uninstalled Python 3.5 so I can reinstall it with the default
> path.
>
> Took me a day to figure out why my extra modules weren't importing in
> py2exe properly and why the Python for windows extensions kept on telling
> me I didn't have Python 3.5 installed while in fact I did.
> It wasn't a well known 64 bit/32 bit case this time but the fact that I
> installed Python 3.5 to C:\Python35
>
> and changed the name to C:\Python 3.5
>
> After that everything just went haywire cause the python for windows
> extensions where looking at the wrong folder and stuff was telling me that
> Python 3.5 didn't exist while IDLE was just sitting there in my start menu.
>
>
> It's a stupid thing but I know for sure a lot of people are going nuts
> because they did something like I did today.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Frank.
>
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