TL;DR: Solved. Thanks, Victor, for prodding me to jump through all those Windows hoops. ;-)
[More comments interleaved below:] On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:15:43 +0100, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2014-02-12 18:10 GMT+01:00 Bob Hanson <d2mp...@newsguy.com>: > > By the way, why not upgrading to SP3? :-) Lots of reasons. One, though, IIRC, MS does not allow downloads of such anymore. (More importantly to me, I don't like the EULA for SP3+ and don't want to implicitly agree to it.) > I read that you installed the beta2 before. You should maybe make sure > that Python 3.4 beta 2 has been fully uninstalled. Why did you remove > the directory manually? Why not uninstall using the Control Panel? 'Twas long years of fighting with the Add/Remove Programs applet when working with Python and other OSS which made me do the "naughty" thing today. In my experience, particularly if one has third-party packages installed by a variety of means, the Control Panel applet often screws things up royally when "removing" things. (Also, I'd just read about Terry's install problems -- usually, I just install overtop the prior version and the MSI installer does the right thing. Today, though, with the above paragraph in mind, and with Terry's problems, I just decided to "shortcut" things.) Following Victor's questioning, I put the dir back, went to CP and did the Add/Remove thing, and then reinstalled rc1 and it "worked." Perhaps a caution in the docs (release notes?) or some such should be added -- as far as I know, I used to be able to delete Python dirs with abandon before installing a different version. It *does* seem that Python and Windows is becoming a sadder story -- I know, use Linux. :-) Meanwhile, my main Python remains 2.5.4 -- a very good vintage. Anyway, thanks again, Victor, for encouraging me to do the obstacle course yet again. :-) Bob Hanson _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
