Re: Python Windows installation

2007-11-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> does anyone know how I can automate installation of the Windows Python > distribution, using python1.5.1.msi ? See http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/ then follow the link "automated installation" to http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/msi/#automated > I want to be able to r

Re: Python Windows installation

2007-11-22 Thread MC
Hi! > 1.5.1 Sure? 1.5.1? For Python 2.5, look ActiveState. Their distrib have silent option. -- @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-29 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
I finally gave up trying to install to c:\Python25 and went with the install to C:\. However, I tried to install a module called pywin32 (Python for Windows Extensions) and after recognizing that the Python installation was in C:\ and saying it would install to C:\LIB\SITE- PACKAGES, it would then

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Tim Roberts
Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The last app I saw that had problems with whitespace was Worms 2 >(1997). YMMV (and I'm interested in it). If only. Even the very latest Microsoft WDK (Windows Driver Kit, formerly known as the DDK) cannot successfully build drivers if the source

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Fuzzyman wrote: > However I did once use a machine where Python had been installed > into 'c:\Program Files\Python24'. It caused no end of problems... What, "it"? The machine or the folder? What kinds of problems? Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #170: popper unable to process jumbo kernel --

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Fuzzyman
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:\Pyt

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Of course, but that would constitute "common practice". Ah, okay. That was what I actually meant ;) > "Best practice" in my book is the one that causes the least > trouble, which names-with-whitespace clearly don't. Though by this > day and age, I admit that progr

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: >> Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > >>> Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice >>> in Windows). >> >> Best practice? Says who? > > Ok, LOL. So, now you expect me to cite some official source? Despite > the fact tha

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: >> Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice >> in Windows). > > Best practice? Says who? Ok, LOL. So, now you expect me to cite some official source? Despite the fact that the vast majority of windows installers

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> Besides preferring an install path that doesn't have spaces... > > Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice in > Windows). > Best practice? Says who? /W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread kyosohma
On Oct 25, 12:36 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:\Py

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
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. Selectin

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-25 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Besides preferring an install path that doesn't have spaces... Which I don't understand (works best for me, and is best practice in Windows). > On a proper XP (or later) system, one needs ADMIN privileges to > install/modify the contents of %PROGRAMFILES%. Any user can

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Roberts
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 no

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-24 Thread kyosohma
On Oct 24, 7:27 am, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > > I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into > > the root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 > > BTW, what exactly is behind the idea to install to c:\python25 > instead of %PROGRAMFILES%\python

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-24 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > I am trying to install Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It installs into > the root directory on C:\ instead of C:\Python25 BTW, what exactly is behind the idea to install to c:\python25 instead of %PROGRAMFILES%\python25? Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #339: manager in t

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-23 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
With C:\Python25 already existing, I tried to install to C: \Python25\Python25. It installed to C:\. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-23 Thread TheFlyingDutchman
I manually created C:\Python25 the reran the install program. The installation program noted that C:\Python25 existed and asked me if I still wanted to install there. After I said yes it installed to C:\. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list