[issue28566] Python installation fails on Windows because of pip feature

2016-10-31 Thread Steve Dower
Steve Dower added the comment: Thanks for the write up. This has already been resolved for 2.7.13 (where install will complete but pip won't be available), and as you discovered you should never set PYTHONHOME (or PYTHONPATH) globally, since it will affect every version and not just the one yo

[issue28566] Python installation fails on Windows because of pip feature

2016-10-31 Thread Anish Patel
New submission from Anish Patel: Originally created issue: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4033#issuecomment-256865622 Copied text below: I had already Python 3 installed with the environment variable PYTHONHOME=C:\Program Files\Python35. I attempted to install Python 2, but received this