I did download from python.org. I checked the md5, it was incorrect, then I downloaded again by using a proxy in Austria. (Which hopefully the communists haven't be able to infiltrate? ;)
Now it worked! Woohoo! I'm still curious about the bad installation file... And what Ho Chi Minh is doing in the Python MSI. (I'm guessing it's timezone-related, but it's still far-fetched, because why would an obscure time zone file appear in the MSI log?) On Saturday, March 22, 2014 12:25:03 AM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:05 AM, cool-RR <ram.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I downloaded it, but the MSI won't install. It didn't work on both of my > > computers (Windows 7 64bit). > > > > > > What the hell. Was python.org hacked by communists? > > > > First question: Where did you download from? What file did you get? > > > > (First and a halfth question: When you say "won't install", exactly > > what do you mean? Error message? Hard drive exploded in a fiery > > inferno? Your boss tapped you on the shoulder and said "Kill that > > process"?) > > > > Secondly, do you have a tool for checking the MD5 hash of a file? > > Compare the file you have against the official checksum: > > > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-340/ > > > > I'm slightly surprised the python.org installers have MD5s and not > > something more cryptographically secure; there are GPG signatures, but > > it takes a bit more fiddling to check those. > > > > Finally, take the simple approach: Re-download the file, straight from > > python.org, and see if it happens again. > > > > ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
