[XML-SIG] problem installing pyxml on Vista 64

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>   I have a vista 64 bit OS installed with MS visual studio 2003 and
> Active State python 2.5.  I am in need of the pyxml module but the
> installer does not work.  The win installer complains at the beginning
> that python 2.4 is not found in the registry.  (ActiveState 2.5 python
> probably does not populate the registry the same way that stock
> python.org’s 2.4 would).

No. It means that you just can't install the binaries into Python 2.5;
they link with python24.dll, and importing it into Python 2.5 would
crash the interpreter.

>   File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", line 616, in
> get_msvc_paths
> 
>     % (self.__root, self.__version))
> 
> AttributeError: MSVCCompiler instance has no attribute '_MSVCCompiler__root'

Somehow, it didn't manage to find the VS 2003 installation. One would
have to debug that further. Perhaps starting up VS 2003 at least once
might help.

> I think if I install Python 2.4 it is going to collide unfavorably w/ my
> ActiveState instance of python.

There shouldn't be any collision, except for the extension. If you
choose not to associate .py with the Python 2.4 installation, there
will be no collision.

In any case, notice that PyXML is unmaintained. Unless you want to take
over maintainership, I recommend that you port the code to some other
XML library; it might be that it ports really easily to the standard
library.

Regards,
Martin