[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-10-28 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: I'd say so. -- stage: -> resolved status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-10-28 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: Can this be closed then? -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Dower
Steve Dower added the comment: Not in future 2.7 installers, certainly. As for 3.5 and later, I'm not a fan of the global install anyway. I'd much rather Python applications install a private copy of python##.dll, and I count python.exe as just another application that should have a private co

[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-08-12 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: 'python.exe' in the installation folder doesn't really matter -- it's just a tiny executable that embeds python27.dll, which contains the interpreter and is installed in C:\Windows\system32. I suspect the installer didn't downgrade python27.dll because the inst

[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-08-09 Thread jp
jp added the comment: Have you checked if there are pyc files left around by the previous installation? -- Yes, hundreds! After making a backup, i deleted all 900+ occurrences of "*.pyc" in c:\python27 and it still reports 2.7.8. Have you specified the full path to python.exe from cmd while ru

[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-08-09 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: Have you checked if there are pyc files left around by the previous installation? Have you specified the full path to python.exe from cmd while running python -V? If you start the interpreter and print sys.version what do you get? Does anything change if you rel

[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-08-09 Thread jp
jp added the comment: Forget to mention this downgrade was installed over the existing python installation. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue22177] Incorrect version reported after downgrade

2014-08-09 Thread jp
New submission from jp: After downgrading from version 2.7.8 to 2.7.5 on Win7 x86 32bit Python, the interpreter continues to report version 2.7.8. I have verified that the installation folder has the correct files belonging to 2.7.5 as evidenced by python.exe having a 2013 timestamp. Ran pyt