On 9 March 2015 at 09:34, Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> wrote:
On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.5 release team, I'm thrilled to announce the availability of Python 3.5.0a2. Python 3.5.0a2 is the second alpha release of Python 3.5, which will be the next major release of Python. Python 3.5 is still under heavy development, and is far from complete.
Hmm, I just tried to install the 64-bit "full installer" version, for all users with the default options. This is on a PC that hasn't had 3.5 installed before, and doesn't have Visual Studio 2015 installed. When it got to the step "precompiling standard library" I got an error window pop up saying "python.exe - system error. The program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." All there was was an "OK" button. Pressing that told me "Setup was successful" but then "py -3.5 -V" gives me nothing (no error, no version, just returns me to the command prompt). Same result if I do "& 'C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\python.exe' -V". Python 3.5.0a2 (64-bit) is showing in my "Add/Remove Programs". This is Windows 7, 64-bit. Paul