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:\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. > > > Where did you get the installer? I've installed Python on Windows many, > > many times, and have never seen this issue. > > -- > > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > from python.org. I doubt many people get this or it would be fixed > but it still is shocking how it can prompt me that the installation > directory exists - showing that it fully knows where it is supposed to > install it - and then go ahead and install it to the root directory > and claim success. It also uninstalls Python if you ask it to so any > screwy settings from a previous install should be removed after the > uninstall, but it also fails to install correctly after an uninstall.
I've never had this problem with the Python.org windows installer. However I did once use a machine where Python had been installed into 'c:\Program Files\Python24'. It caused no end of problems... Michael Foord http://www.manning.com/foord -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
