I tried to install windows binary and the setup hanged up on 'determining disk space requirements' I waited over two hours for this to finish, and the light blinked in a syncrinised pattern that led me to believe something was wrong. So I have since restarted it and the light is blinking differently this time. Hope it works.

I think the beginers guide needs to be updated to let us know what type of download to use. x86-64 or binary. 64 bit works so is that the right one for me. I'm trying to get this graphics.py to work that came with a book. It stops working when I run a module with it.

Dan, there seem to be a number of possible issues in your last two messages.

It's not clear to me what the blinking light is. What type of computer do you have and what is the specific installer and version you tried to run?

Also, what do you mean when you say that it stops working when you run a module? Does the interpreter crash or is there an unhandled exception which causes the application to exit?

It seemed to work after I restarted it. It was stuck on the process of getting disk space requirements, the computer was processing something but the light on the console that tells you something is being processed was blinking once every second in a obvious loop, When I started over it just processed through it in less than a second. So there was something wrong. I don't know if it was my computer or not.

--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Brian Curtin <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

From: Brian Curtin <report@bugs.python.org>
Subject: [issue7803] setup hangs on disk space requirements
To: sentai360@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:37 PM

Brian Curtin <curtin@acm.org> added the comment:

Dan, there seem to be a number of possible issues in your last two messages.

It's not clear to me what the blinking light is. What type of computer do you have and what is the specific installer and version you tried to run?

Also, what do you mean when you say that it stops working when you run a module? Does the interpreter crash or is there an unhandled exception which causes the application to exit?

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nosy: +brian.curtin
status: closed -> open

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In 12 years of installing Python on Windows I've never seen this problem.  Unless others have seen this and/or it's reproducible I'd suggest this is closed.

@Steve can you close this please.