[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-2985146 ] Confusing error message

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Bugs item #2985146, was opened at 2010-04-11 06:05
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: David Abrahams (david_abrahams)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Confusing error message

Initial Comment:
I installed Python 2.6 yesterday using the standard Windows installer and, accepting all the defaults
Today I tried to install pywin32 but the installation failed with the message that it couldn't find Python 2.6 in the registry!

That was pretty confusing until I realized I had installed the 32-bit python and was trying to install the amd64 pywin32.

The installer should check for such cases and give a better error message.

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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2010-04-13 11:33

Message:
Sorry, but this too is related to distutils bdist_wininst rather than
pywin32.

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