On 11/13/2011 12:46 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
For many months I had sporadically used 2.5.2 under Win 7, then something went awry. I tried an uninstall/install and it didn't get any better. I thought I'd take another shot at it today. The uninstall went OK, but c:\python25 remained with several py files and a folder, Lib. I went ahead with the install and got a msg that asked if I wanted to write over the python25 folder.
Uninstall (should) only uninstall files that it installed and directories that are empty. The 'several py files' should be files that you or some third-party software installed. I personally put everything I write under /pythonxy in a subdirectory thereof that install and uninstall pay no attention to. The Lib directory contains all the python-coded stdlib modules. Unless you know there is something that you wrote that you want, I would delete it before re-installing.
I suspect that current installers work a bit better than 2.5. I would definitely use the latest 2.5.z that comes with an installer and not 2.5.2. They are all the same version of the language. The only difference is bug fixes.
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