[Python-Dev] Python environment registration in the Windows Registry

[Matthew Einhorn]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com>
wrote:

> ...just when I thought I have solved the registry headaches I have been
> dealing with...
>
> I am not saying this proposal will make the registry situation worse, but
> it may break my solution to the headaches Python's registry use causes with
> some non-standard module installers (and even the standard distutils exe
> installers, but that is being mitigated).  In the wild exist modules with
> their own EXE or MSI installers that check the registry for 'the system
> python'.  No matter how hard you hit them, they will only install to *that
> one python*.


If I remember correctly, you can use `wheel convert filename.exe` on those
installers which create a wheel that you can install. I think that's what I
used to do with pywin32 before pypiwin32 came along.

I just tested it and it still works on the pywin32 exe.
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