Re: Python Windows installation

2007-11-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> does anyone know how I can automate installation of the Windows Python > distribution, using python1.5.1.msi ? See http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/ then follow the link "automated installation" to http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/msi/#automated > I want to be able to r

Re: Python Windows installation

2007-11-22 Thread MC
Hi! > 1.5.1 Sure? 1.5.1? For Python 2.5, look ActiveState. Their distrib have silent option. -- @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python Windows installation

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Moyles
does anyone know how I can automate installation of the Windows Python distribution, using python1.5.1.msi ? I want to be able to run the installation without user interaction, and pass default parameters (instead of user entries), during the installation process. This can be done with other .m

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-29 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
I finally gave up trying to install to c:\Python25 and went with the install to C:\. However, I tried to install a module called pywin32 (Python for Windows Extensions) and after recognizing that the Python installation was in C:\ and saying it would install to C:\LIB\SITE- PACKAGES, it would then

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Tim Roberts
Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The last app I saw that had problems with whitespace was Worms 2 >(1997). YMMV (and I'm interested in it). If only. Even the very latest Microsoft WDK (Windows Driver Kit, formerly known as the DDK) cannot successfully build drivers if the source

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Fuzzyman wrote: > However I did once use a machine where Python had been installed > into 'c:\Program Files\Python24'. It caused no end of problems... What, "it"? The machine or the folder? What kinds of problems? Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #170: popper unable to process jumbo kernel --

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Fuzzyman
On Oct 25, 6:36 pm, TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 24, 11:22 pm, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into the > > >root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Pyt

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Of course, but that would constitute "common practice". Ah, okay. That was what I actually meant ;) > "Best practice" in my book is the one that causes the least > trouble, which names-with-whitespace clearly don't. Though by this > day and age, I admit that progr

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: >> Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > >>> Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice >>> in Windows). >> >> Best practice? Says who? > > Ok, LOL. So, now you expect me to cite some official source? Despite > the fact tha

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: >> Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice >> in Windows). > > Best practice? Says who? Ok, LOL. So, now you expect me to cite some official source? Despite the fact that the vast majority of windows installers

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> Besides preferring an install path that doesn't have spaces... > > Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice in > Windows). > Best practice? Says who? /W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread kyosohma
On Oct 25, 12:36 pm, TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 24, 11:22 pm, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into the > > >root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Py

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
On Oct 24, 11:22 pm, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into the > >root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 which it shows by default > >as what it plans to install to. Selectin

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Besides preferring an install path that doesn't have spaces... Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice in Windows). > On a proper XP (or later) system, one needs ADMIN privileges to > install/modify the contents of %PROGRAMFILES%. Any user can

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Roberts
TheFlyingDutchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into the >root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 which it shows by default >as what it plans to install to. Selecting D:\Python25 on a previous >iteration put the exe in D:\ and did no

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-24 Thread kyosohma
On Oct 24, 7:27 am, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > > I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into > > the root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 > > BTW, what exactly is behind the idea to install to c:\python25 > instead of %PROGRAMFILES%\python

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-24 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into > the root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 BTW, what exactly is behind the idea to install to c:\python25 instead of %PROGRAMFILES%\python25? Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #339: manager in t

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-23 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
With C:\Python25 already existing, I tried to install to C: \Python25\Python25. It installed to C:\. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-23 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
I manually created C:\Python25 the reran the install program. The installation program noted that C:\Python25 existed and asked me if I still wanted to install there. After I said yes it installed to C:\. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python Windows Installation

2007-10-23 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into the root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 which it shows by default as what it plans to install to. Selecting D:\Python25 on a previous iteration put the exe in D:\ and did not create a Python25 directory. On the most recent i