On 4 November 2011 12:11, Mark Hammond skippy.hammond@gmail.com wrote:
There really isn't anything that makes it "installed". A built Python works completely fine just where it is (and indeed, will work just fine if moved somewhere else). The closest thing to being "installed" on windows is an "InstalledPath" (or something :) registry key for the version, but that is only necessary in a limited number of contexts - when some executable other than the in-place python[w].exe needs to know where things are.
So that would imply that sysconfig.is_python_build is basically meaningless on Windows. So at a minimum, it should always return False on Windows.
Actually, it's not part of the public API of sysconfig (it's not in __all__) and it's only used in one place within sysconfig.py, so maybe it should be removed and the check done inline in that one place...
Paul.