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

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

Jurko Gospodnetić jurko.gospodnetic at pke.hr
Mon Mar 10 16:35:46 CET 2014

Hi Paul.

On 10.3.2014. 14:54, Paul Moore wrote:

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).

Reported as issue #20883 (http://bugs.python.org/issue20883). I'll report the extra details there then.

Best regards, Jurko Gospodnetić

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