[python-committers] Python 2.6.4?

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:14:23 +0200, "Thomas Heller" <theller at ctypes.org>
said:
> Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
> > It seems logging is broken in 2.6.3. Should we release
> > 2.6.4 quickly?
> > 
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue7052
> 
> It also reports a 2.6.3rc1 version number on windows:
> 
> Python 2.6.3 (r263rc1:75186, Oct  2 2009, 20:40:30) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)]
> on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>

I did an upgrade in-place on Win XP.  In c:\Python26 I found

python26.dll  2,084KB 4/14/2009 10:42 PM
python.exe       26KB 10/2/2009 8:42 PM

When I ran python.exe from c:\Python26 I got

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I then re-ran the installer and 'repaired' Python.  No difference.

I used the Control Panel to uninstall Python2.6.  It didn't completely
remove - python26.dll, msvcr90.dll, and Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
remained.

Reinstalled Python2.6 - no difference.
Uninstalled Python26, deleted the Python26 directory, reinstalled Python
2.6.3.  Now have correct version.

Found python26.dll in c:\Windows\System32\ with 10/2 date.  Clearly this
was being shadowed by the python26.dll in c:\Python26\.  I have no idea
where that came from - as far as I know, I had a vanilla 2.6.2
installation, and I don't build Python on Windows.

FWIW to the Windows gurus.





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KBK