Martin: Thank you for your prompt and helpful response to my attempt to tag
along to a possibly similar bug. I had been working on my issue for about
two weeks and truly believed it was a bug before i adventured as I did. As
you know, the difference between a problem and a bug is who comes up with
the fix.

I continued working my issue and discovered I could reinstall by running
msiexec with the "/l *v" option and again with the "/fa /l*v" option which
forces all file files to be reinstalled. I still consider this to be a bug
in the Python installer because the installer does not truly repair. But I
am a happy camper now will use the python-list you recommended.

Don DeZutter

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Martin v. Löwis <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
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> Don: This is not a helpdesk system, but a bug tracker; the difference is
> that we don't help you here, but you help us.
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> If you need help yourself, I suggest subscribing to python-list, at
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> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> and posting a question there.
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