Python install failing. Install log is available.

jan rtm443x at googlemail.com
Fri May 21 06:21:19 EDT 2021


OK, but

1. should the installer work for administrator + all users or not?

2. if not, should the installer work for me (a non-admin) and install
python correctly and successfully for my account if I run it in my
account, not the admin?

thanks

jan

On 20/05/2021, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 5/20/2021 7:06 AM, jan via Python-list wrote:
>
>> This time it's simply not installing correctly when run as
>> administrator, and not at all when run as non-administrator.
>>
>> As administrator, it's not installing for other users as I believe it
>> should.
>>
>> It's certainly not adding the python path correctly *for all users*
>
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami
> ...
>> Any thoughts?
>
> On Windows, use the py launcher to launch python.  It was added as the
> solution to problems with adding python paths, including problems with
> multiple installs and those with removing them.
>
>
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