[New-bugs-announce] [issue4407] Windows Installer Error 1722 when opting for compilation at install time

[Eric Devolder]

New submission from Eric Devolder <eric.devolder at gmail.com>:

This error happens when opting in for compiling the scripts at
installation. (please note also that I did not selected "register
extension", but I don't think this has an impact).

Here is the text from event viewer:

Product: Python 3.0rc3 -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this
Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not
finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. 
Action CompilePyc, location: L:\Python30\python.exe, command: -Wi
"L:\Python30\Lib\compileall.py" -f -x
bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|py2_ "L:\Python30\Lib" 

Running the command manually indeed crashes, because of pipe symbol
being interpretted at shell level, not Python.

Please find attached a patch on Tools\msi\msi.py that addresses the
problem (untested, I don't have VStudio )

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components: Installation
files: compileall_py.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 76318
nosy: keldonin
severity: normal
status: open
title: Windows Installer Error 1722 when opting for compilation at install time
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12119/compileall_py.patch

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