Op 2017-09-20, Irmen de Jong schreef <irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl>: > The only thing I can think of is that it asks windows update to > install said KB update but that it depends on something else that > isn't installed or that the user running the installation doesn't have > the rights to install windows updates. (I suspect something will be > logged in the event viewer somewhere...?)
Yeah, I suppose something like that. Presumably you can lock down Windows in some way that it won't install the KB, but that is clearly not the factory default. > Or that it doesn't attempt to download it at all and that we are > misinformed :P :-( > Btw, I personally never had any issues installing Python on Windows. I was vaguely tempted to offer the Mingw-w64 (GCC) Python as an alternative, since it doesn't rely on any optionally-installed Microsoft DLLs and so avoids this issue. But I suppose that is not really the newbie-friendly solution the OP was looking for... Stephan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
