On 10/8/15, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:30 eryksun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The new installer for 3.5 doesn't create an "App Paths" key for > "python.exe" like the old installer used to do (see the old > Tools/msi/msi.py). Without that, unless python.exe is in the search > PATH, "Win+R -> python" and running "start python" in the command > prompt won't work. You can of course add the key manually as the > default value for > "[HKLM|HKCU]\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App > Paths\python.exe". IMO, this makes it the 'system' Python. > > That's interesting. Any idea why it changed?
Probably it's just an oversight. I doubt Steve Dower would have purposefully decided to not set the "App Paths" key. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
