Martin v. Loewis wrote:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=17343

Actually, you should get it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=32831 For NT 4 and Win2k, see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b6140f9-2d36-4977-... Regards, Martin

[Martin v. Loewis]

I have put a new version of the installer at

http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/python2.4.0.12421.msi

... I'm particularly interested in whether this can be installed and run successfully on Windows 95 (and other W9x versions).

I don't have a Win95 box anymore. It installed fine on Win98SE; I already had the Windows Installer. Most things worked fine. I noticed that Lib/site-packages/ wasn't created, but should be. A number of tests failed that didn't fail in last night's VC6-built Python 2.4. I expect most of these are due to failing to install some test files with oddball extensions (that was a seemingly endless battle with the Wise installer too): C:\Python24>python lib/test/regrtest.py -u network,largefile ... test___all__ test test___all__ failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test___all__.py", line 69, in test_all self.check_all("base64") File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test___all__.py", line 42, in check_all exec "from %s import *" % modname in names File "<string>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'freenet_b64encode' Also failed under VC6. ... test test_anydbm failed -- errors occurred in test.test_anydbm.AnyDBMTestCase New failure. ... test test_imageop crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'testrgb.uue' New failure. ... test_minidom Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 1357, in ? func() File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 112, in testAppendChild dom = parse(tstfile) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1915, in parse return expatbuilder.parse(file) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse fp = open(file, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\PYTHON24\\lib\\test\\test.xml' Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 1357, in ? func() File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 36, in testGetElementsByTagName dom = parse(tstfile) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1915, in parse return expatbuilder.parse(file) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse fp = open(file, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\PYTHON24\\lib\\test\\test.xml' Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 1357, in ? func() File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 188, in testNonZero dom = parse(tstfile) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1915, in parse return expatbuilder.parse(file) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse fp = open(file, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\PYTHON24\\lib\\test\\test.xml' Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 1357, in ? func() File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 31, in testParseFromFile dom = parse(StringIO(open(tstfile).read())) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\PYTHON24\\lib\\test\\test.xml' Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 1357, in ? func() File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_minidom.py", line 195, in testUnlink dom = parse(tstfile) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1915, in parse return expatbuilder.parse(file) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse fp = open(file, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\PYTHON24\\lib\\test\\test.xml' test test_minidom produced unexpected output: ********************************************************************** *** lines 2-20 of actual output doesn't appear in expected output after line 1: + Test Failed: testAppendChild + <exceptions.IOError instance at 0x01BD3698> + Test Failed: testGetElementsByTagName + <exceptions.IOError instance at 0x01A18A80> + Test Failed: testNonZero + <exceptions.IOError instance at 0x01A18F08> + Test Failed: testParseFromFile + <exceptions.IOError instance at 0x01A18968> + Test Failed: testUnlink + <exceptions.IOError instance at 0x01A238F0> + + + + **** Check for failures in these tests: + testAppendChild + testGetElementsByTagName + testNonZero + testParseFromFile + testUnlink ********************************************************************** New failure. ... test test_rgbimg crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'testrgb.uue' New failure. ... test test_sax crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'test.xml.out' New failure. ... test test_tarfile crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\windows\\temp\\testtar.dir\\testtar.tar.gz' New failure. ... test test_unicode_file failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_unicode_file.py", line 142, in test_single_files self._test_single(TESTFN_UNICODE) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_unicode_file.py", line 116, in _test_single self._do_single(filename) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_unicode_file.py", line 32, in _do_single os.utime(filename, None) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 6-7: ordinal not in range(128) Old failure. ... test_urllib2 test test_urllib2 failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\test\test_urllib2.py", line 345, in test_file r = h.file_open(Request(url)) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\urllib2.py", line 1058, in file_open return self.open_local_file(req) File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\urllib2.py", line 1073, in open_local_file stats = os.stat(localfile) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\test.txt' Old failure. ... 9 tests failed: test___all__ test_anydbm test_imageop test_minidom test_rgbimg test_sax test_tarfile test_unicode_file test_urllib2 Up from 3 failures last night.