On 4 November 2011 12:11, Mark Hammond <[email protected]> wrote: > There really isn't anything that makes it "installed". A built Python works > completely fine just where it is (and indeed, will work just fine if moved > somewhere else). The closest thing to being "installed" on windows is an > "InstalledPath" (or something :) registry key for the version, but that is > only necessary in a limited number of contexts - when some executable other > than the in-place python[w].exe needs to know where things are.
So that would imply that sysconfig.is_python_build is basically meaningless on Windows. So at a minimum, it should always return False on Windows. Actually, it's not part of the public API of sysconfig (it's not in __all__) and it's only used in one place within sysconfig.py, so maybe it should be removed and the check done inline in that one place... Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
