[capi-sig] Win64 Vim: sys.path not set correctly

[George V. Reilly]

On 10/29/07, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> This will be related to the registry entries being written into the 32bit
> part of the registry rather than the 64bit version.  As a result, whenever
> Python is embedded in another application and needs to use the registry to
> locate its installation path, it fails, and uses the fallback relative
> values of ".\DLLs", ".\lib" etc.  On the other hand, when Python is started
> normally, it can locate its library automatically, so the correct entries
> are used.
>
> If you search the python-dev archives, you will see a discussion on this
> issue, and also a new copy of the installer put together by Martin V Loewis
> to test the fix for this issue.  It is expected that the fix will also
> appear in Python 2.5.2.
>
> Hope this helps,

Thanks, Mark.

The mail thread at
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-July/073900.html
describes the problem and points to a fixed installer. In short, the
official Python 2.5.1 amd64 installer sets the 'reflected' registry
keys at HKLM\Software\Wow6432node\Python, instead of
HKLM\Software\Python.

I installed Martin v. Löwis's private build and that fixed my problems.
-- 
/George V. Reilly
http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog