[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated

New submission from Michael Driscoll : I was reading through http://docs.python.org/faq/windows.html and noticed that its examples are based on Python 2.2-2.3 and it only really covers up to Windows 2000 with just a couple mentions of XP. There are also sections in there that I'm not even sur

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Changes by Michael Driscoll : -- components: +Windows versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___ __

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Daniel Swanson added the comment: I agree that Such things are most outdated and I think that if any Python users are still using platforms that old, that they are an extreme minority and also wonder what on (or off) Earth a Freeze is. -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___

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Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +brian.curtin, docs@python, ezio.melotti, tim.golden stage: -> needs patch type: -> enhancement versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker

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Michael Driscoll added the comment: Here are a few proposals that spring to mind: 1a) Update all Windows references to Windows 7 or Vista/7. We can include XP, but I think Microsoft is dropping support next year. 1b) Update all Python references to the current version instead of 2.2 and 2.3.

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Éric Araujo added the comment: The freeze script may have been moved in 3.2. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

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Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the detailed remarks. Some of the proposed changes may not apply to the 2.7 and 3.2 versions, which for example support XP if I remember correctly. 1b: Sure, patch welcomed. 6: os.system is discouraged, but os.popen still exists in 3.x (it’s implemen

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Michael Driscoll added the comment: I know Python 3.x still runs on XP too, but should we continue to mention it in our documentation? I don't know. Part of the reason I wrote up all that was to see if people had any well thought out arguments one way or the other on these things. As for thi

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Michael Driscoll added the comment: Should the patch for 1b replace Python 2.2 with Python 2.7/3.2 or just Python 3.2? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Brian Curtin added the comment: I'd rather it tried to stay as version agnostic as could be, but favoring 3.x in general. I wouldn't tie it down to any particular version because we'll have to come back in several years and update Python 3.3 to Python 3.8. --

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Éric Araujo added the comment: > I know Python 3.x still runs on XP too, but should we continue to mention it > in our documentation? I don't know. Part > of the reason I wrote up all that was to see if people had any well thought > out arguments one way or the other on these things. In my op

[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated

Michael Driscoll added the comment: Could we say just Python and ignore the version number? Or would Python 2.7 work for the 2.7 branch patch since there isn't supposed to be a 2.8 and then for Python 3 we could go with 3.x? -- ___ Python tracker

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Éric Araujo added the comment: I’m not sure we understand each other. Can you give examples of the outdated code samples so that we can discuss something concrete? -- ___ Python tracker _

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Michael Driscoll added the comment: Okay. Here are a couple from http://docs.python.org/faq/windows.html#how-do-i-run-a-python-program-under-windows: "You may also find that you have a Start-menu entry such as Start ‣ Programs ‣ Python 2.2 ‣ Python (command line)" Then just a little farther

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Daniel Swanson added the comment: >>> 1a) Update all Windows references to Windows 7 or Vista/7. We can include >>> XP, but I think Microsoft is dropping support next year. According to wikipedia Windows XP is the second most popular operating system, probably better not to drop it all togeth

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Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Is anyone currently working on this issue? I am a newbie & am really looking forward to contributing, but, quite unsure of what exact changes need to be made to the FAQ documentation. The previous comments are very helpful & I am going to proceed with the

[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated

Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Found this - http://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html Seems like my work got a bit easy. Need to truncate the bits & bytes oof the document so as to fit with FAQ system. I think I will also need to do changes to the official wiki (online) too. Any help/s

[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated

Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Made most of the relevant changes & updation to the FAQ. 1. Updated references to Windows 7/XP/Vista & dropped all references & solutions on older Windows. 2. Also, many of the ending FAQs like cw3215mt.dll, CTL3D32 were completely dropped as I found that t

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Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Just added my name to the Misc/ACKS. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28250/faq+ack.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

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Brian Curtin added the comment: Looks alright so far. I'm working on reviewing and applying it. -- assignee: docs@python -> brian.curtin ___ Python tracker ___ __

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Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5edbd93509b8 by Brian Curtin in branch '3.2': Fix #14901. Update the Windows FAQ. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5edbd93509b8 New changeset fe20d5bf0c93 by Brian Curtin in branch 'default': Add Ashish Nitin Patil for work on Issue #14901 http://hg

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Brian Curtin added the comment: Thanks for the patch. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Always happy to contribute! My first! Looking forward to getting accustomed to it & doing my part for python. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e8793c5f0ebc by Chris Jerdonek in branch '3.2': Fix Sphinx warning (missing "setting-envvars" reference). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e8793c5f0ebc -- ___ Python tracker