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  Re: Install python 2 and 3 in the "wrong" order Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-15 11:13 -0500

#66453 — Re: Install python 2 and 3 in the "wrong" order

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:53:12 +0100, Nagy László Zsolt
<gandalf@shopzeus.com> declaimed the following:

>I have Python 3.3 installed on my Windows 7 x64 box. Today I had to 
>install Python 2.7 for an older app of mine.
>
>Here is my problem: although "#!/usr/bin/env python3" is given in the 
>file and "py -3" program works fine, apparently the installation of 
>python 2 simply has overwritten my settings (e.g. assignment *.py files 
>to py.exe).
>
>Question: is there a way to fix this? Or do I have to reinstall Python 3 
>from scratch? (It would be a pity, I have tons of third party modules 
>installed for it...)
>
	And why would reinstalling P3 /overtop/ of the original install
directory do anything to those 3rd party modules? So far as I know, a
windows installer typically won't delete files that weren't part of it in
the first place (and many uninstallers will complain that they can't remove
directories because there are unknown files in them).


	
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