On 2/13/2016 5:35 AM, MWS wrote:
Just to add to the above discussion, i find that when my workplace updated from win 7 to win 8.1 with fresh install, i downloaded the official python 3.5 and installed it. Everything went well during installation, but, i couldn't find the default install python directory (maybe i didn't pay attention earlier), later, after some scratching my head and other intelligent thoughts and experiments i found it got installed in the users hidden appdata folder by default(confusing as i expected it to either get installed in a root folder or program files and also wondering why).
Based on my experience with installing Python 3.5.0, I ran into the same problem by clicking on the "Download Python 3.5.0" link on the Python download page and used the python-3.5.0.exe installer. Since nothing worked as I expected, I uninstalled that installer version of Python.
Digging through the specific release section, I downloaded the Windows x86-64 executable installer (python-3.5.0-amd64.exe). That installer behaved exactly as I expected. In fact, this is the installer I've always used for previous versions.
Besides the focus of the content files, the python-3.5.0.exe and python-3.5.0-amd64.exe installers don't behave exactly the same.
Thanks, Chris R. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
