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Title: Bad IDLE shortcut by 2.4 installer on XP
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: loewis Nosy List: jbrouwers, loewis (2)
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Created on 2004-12-01 16:28 by jbrouwers, last changed 2004-12-22 12:58 by loewis.

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msg23475 - (view) Author: Jean M. Brouwers (jbrouwers) Date: 2004-12-01 16:28 
There is a problem with the Python 2.4 installer on
Windows XP.

The IDLE shortcut set up by the installer in the
StartUp folder does not work.  If the shortcut is
removed and recreated manually, it works fine.

That was *after* a complete reinstall of Python 2.4 and
after removing the previous version of Python 2.3 on
the machine.  With Python 2.3 present, the IDLE
shortcut installed by Python 2.4 runs the 2.3 version.

See also

<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1074873&group_id=5470&atid=105470>

and

<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-August/237357.html>
msg23476 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-12-08 22:13 
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I've added an entry to

http://www.python.org/2.4/bugs.html

now and hope to fix the problem for 2.4.1.
msg23477 - (view) Author: Jean M. Brouwers (jbrouwers) Date: 2004-12-09 01:16 
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One more piece of data.  We installed Python 2.4 in
directory "C:\Program Files\Python24".  Maybe the space in
the name is causing the problem.
msg23478 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-12-22 12:58 
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This is now fixed in msi.py 1.19 and 1.16.2.3
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