Re: [python-win32] installation problem on win xp

2011-07-07 Thread Lynn Oliver
Vernon: You may be right that I was doing too much, but I wanted to get as close as possible to a clean install. I was using the recommended method for installation and downloading the version matching python. I went back to python 2.7 and got pywin32 to work, but only after uninstalling ever

Re: [python-win32] installation problem on win xp

2011-07-07 Thread Tim Roberts
Vernon Cole wrote: > > In order to run the one I want, I have a group of batch files on my > search path. For example, py32.bat contains:... > c:\python32\python.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 Here's your unsolicited Windows hint of the day. You can simplify and generalize that by saying:

Re: [python-win32] installation problem on win xp

2011-07-06 Thread Vernon Cole
Lynn: First, you were working too hard. You did not need to remove 2.7.n to install 2.6.n -- they install side-by-side in C:\python27 and C:\python26. Here on my laptop, at the present moment, I have 2.3.5, 2.7.1, and 3.2 all installed. [also two versions of IronPython, one of Jython, and two oth

[python-win32] installation problem on win xp

2011-07-06 Thread Lynn Oliver
Hello, New here, so I hope I'm following correct procedures. Yesterday I installed python 2.7.2 on win xp and then successfully installed pywin32-216. Today I needed to use a different version of python, so I uninstalled both and installed python 2.6.7 and pywin-216. The installation failed