In a message of Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:56:54 -0000, Brett Cannon writes:

I don't see any issue opened about Windows 7 installation issues, so if someone who has had the issue can thus can help Steve diagnose the problem that would be great (Steve is also currently on vacation so having this all in a bug that he can read when he gets back would also help).

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Same here. I get a "0x80240017 error" during installation.

Wearing my webmaster hat I talked to somebody who had this error with their windows 8.1 install. They wrote back that they had found this on the net and following the sequence of things to do called 'Method 1'in http://wind8apps.com/error-0x80240017-windows/ fixed things for them. Laura

[This is about the mailing list, not about Python development] That python-dev-owner has gotten two complaints about this message so far suggests I should explain what's going on ;-) New list members are automatically moderated. Their posts sit in a moderation queue waiting for moderator action. While python-dev has several "official" moderators, best I can tell I'm the only one who has reviewed these messages for years. So - yup! - I approved this spam. The Subject was legit, the email address was from Google rather than, e.g., some obscure Russian host, and the link was to a site with an obviously computer-related name. "Good enough". Usually, but not in this case. So, sorry, but sometimes one of these just will slip through. I've since fiddled the list to auto-discard future posts from this address, but have no ability to purge the spam from the list archives. There are other not-spam but "low quality" messages I've let through too, since the list migrated to Mailman 3. That's because we lost some very useful moderator functionality (which I've griped about on a Mailman 3 issue tracker): - It's no longer possible to forward a message from the queue to a different address. So, e.g., rather than throw them away, I've let through some newbie messages that I would previously have forwarded to the Python help list. - It's no longer possible to write custom text for a "Reject" action. So, again, rather than throw away messages that should obviously be posted to a different list, with the author getting nothing but a generic explanation-free "rejected" message, I've let them through. Yes, I _could_ use my own my email account and copy/paste/fiddle to forward/reply in such cases, independent of Mailman functionality. And sometimes I do. But there's only so much time I can give to this, and some days I settle for clearing the queue just as quickly as Tim-ly possible. Some of that will get better if/when Mailman 3 restores lost functionality, but I doubt anything can be done that stops spam 100% short of erring on the side of rejecting marginally legit messages too. But that's not how my brain is wired, so you would need a different moderator if that's what you want. In the meantime, I'll continue cashing my lavish moderator checks and just laugh at complaints ;-) On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 12:21 AM <gotechnocious@gmail.com> wrote:

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