David Rader added the comment:
FYI - as a work around problem 1, after the install I replaced the .manifest
file and the VCRT.dll with the older non-SP1 versions and python ran.
Then, to work around problem 2, I used resource hacker to manually delete the
manifest from each file in the DLLs
New submission from David Rader:
Problem 1:
The .manifest information for the VC runtime dll's has been changed in the
recent versions of the 2.7.x 64-bit installers for Windows. Python fails to run
on a clean Win2008R2 install after running the Python installer to install
"Just fo
