[Python-Dev] urllib2 EP + decr. startup time

[Paul Moore]

On 16/02/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> Hm.  Interesting, actually.  Does anybody know why it's looking for
> 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python25.zip'?  That seems wrong to me.

It looks alongside python25.dll, which is installed in
windows\system32 by default.

If you then ask why the DLL goes in the system directory, I believe
this is to help with Python COM objects, which don't otherwise have
the Python directory on their PATH (and so wouldn't find python25.dll
if it were there).

Paul.