[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.5.0a2 is now available

[Paul Moore]

On 9 March 2015 at 09:34, Larry Hastings <larry at 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