installation failure for Win2K

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Using all defaults for Install of build 201.

wxPython Demo works fine as do Idle and python from a
DOS prompt - all are for Python 2.3.3.

I get this error:
Can't load Python for pre-install script

I don't have Admin permissions on this box, so maybe
that confuses the installer ?

Reported by: akrassowski

Original Ticket: "pywin32/bugs/98":https://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/98

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• labels: 518544 --> installation

Original comment by: mhammond

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This appears to be more a distutils issue than ours.
Unfortunately, I don't think distutils writes diagnostic
information anywhere, but it should, and I may add it.

Original comment by: mhammond

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I reproduced this error on Build 201.1 under WinXP+SP1. I
have admin permissions, and python directory is in path.
Setup detects python entries in registry, then fails with
"Can't load Python for pre-install script".

Copying the setup program to the same directory as the
python executable circumvents this problem.

Original comment by: kennanm

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@mhammond Since the recommended installation method is now as a python package from PyPI, exe installers are deprecated #1939, and that this issue was created for Windows 2000 (with he last comment referencing Windows XP). Should this be closed?