[Python-Dev] Windows 'for current user' installation (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Windows 'for current user' installation - 32/64-bit registrations overwrite each other

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 14:54:10 CET 2014

On 10 March 2014 13:03, Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic at pke.hr> wrote:

Is this as issue or desired behaviour? Should I open an issue for it?

Sounds like a bug, but a pretty long-standing one. I can't think that the registry schema Python uses would ever have distinguished (the WOW64 component of the all-users entries is a system-generated thing, AIUI).

So yes, raise a bug, but (a) it would be useful to test whether the same bug exists in 3.3 and 2.7, and (b) it's going to be tricky to fix without a backward-incompatible change to the registry settings (which will affect things like the launcher and virtualenv, for a start).

Paul

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