Andrew Koenig wrote:
So it may be that a caveat is in order to people who do not install 2.4 as Administrator.
I think the trouble is not with 2.4, here - the trouble is with installing pywin32. As you said, the installation of Python itself went fine.
My hypothesis: When I install 2.4 as me, it puts it in my user registry, not the system-wide registry,
I can confirm this hypothesis. In a per-user installation, the registry settings are deliberately change for the user, not for the entire system. Otherwise, it wouldn't be per-user. Also, the user might not be able to write to the machine registry (unless he is a member of the Power Users group).
and then pywin32 can't find it.
That sounds likely, but I cannot confirm it. If it is, it is a bug in pywin32 (and, in turn, possibly in distutils).
Regards, Martin