Python 2.2 unwise.exe

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.1018983273.20776.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters
<tim.one at comcast.net> writes
>[Robin Becker]
>> On the office machine well I installed Python 2.2.1 last Friday evening.
>> My unwise.exe is now gone as of Tuesday 10:00 am.
>>
>> I had a hard crash Monday morning.
>
>Did you have a previous version of 2.2 on your machine, and uninstall it
>before installing 2.2.1?
>

sadly no. On the office Win2k machine I had 2.1.2 previously. On the
home Win2k machine I had 2.2 and discovered that unwise.exe was missing
on Saturday when I tried to uninstall in order to reinstall with 2.2.1. 

>On a clean Win2K Pro box, I'm finally able to provoke this (or at least one
>of its causes) reproducibly, via:
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>1. Boot the box.
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>2. Install 2.2.1.
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>3. Uninstall 2.2.1.
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>4. Install 2.2.1 again.  Note that \Python22\UNWISE.EXE is there.
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>5. Reboot the box (just logging off and on again isn't enough).
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>6. Now \Python22\UNWISE.EXE no longer exists.
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>
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Robin Becker