Python on Vista installation issues

[Chris Gonnerman]

Mattia Gentilini wrote:
> will ha scritto:
>   
>> Vista is a 64 bit OS and there is no port of pywin32 for either Vista
>> or 64-bit XP
>>     
> Vista exists in BOTH 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
>   
Indeed, and this is running on a Core 2 Duo laptop, a 32 bit platform.  
The problem is obvious (or seems to be)... the installer for Python 
(which is a "professional" installer) has set the c:\python25 folder 
privileges so that the installers for the extensions (which are the 
pocket-sized installers from the distutils) can't write files in that 
folder.  The site-packages folder is evidently marked "public" (however 
that is done) so that the installation of files into that folder by the 
extension installers works fine.  But then, there is also a restricted 
registry key that is blocking the win32all installer from working properly.

I hate Vista.  Does anyone like it?  Okay, that's off topic, but I had 
to vent.

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