On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:51 AM, eryksun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Marc Tompkins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:36 PM, eryksun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> .py files need to be associated with %windir%\py.exe. > > > > > > NO! > > > > %windir% means "the directory where Windows is installed", usually (but > not > > always) C:\Windows. You're saying that there needs to be a py.exe in the > > Windows directory - this is absolutely not true. You might have it set > up > > that way on your machine, but it's not standard and absolutely not > > recommended. > > > > To the original poster: please disregard. > > boB has 3.3.1 installed. The official Windows installer for 3.3 > installs the new pylauncher to %windir%. It doesn't give you an option > to do otherwise. Have you read PEP 397? Have you installed 3.3 on > Windows? > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397 >
Only as a non-administrative user... > The launcher is installed into the Windows directory (see discussion below) > if installed by a privileged user. The stand-alone installer asks for an > alternative location of the installer, and adds that location to the user's > PATH. > > I had not read the PEP, and I apologize for my previous outburst. Now that I _have_ read it, I gotta say: this is stupid. Third-party software should NOT be installing stuff in the Windows folder - including Python, no matter how much I love it. How on earth did the discussion on this go, I wonder?
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