"Kevin Altis" <altis@[...].com>  writes:

>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Fred Pacquier
>  >
>  > The new installer sure looks great. As had been said before, it will
>  > certainly improve newcomers' first experience with PyCard !
>  >
>  > Unfortunately on my (French) win98SE it doesn't quite run to the end :
>  >  after the pyc/pyo compilation steps, the installer stops with
>  > a textarea displaying an exception :
>  >
>  > Traceback (most recent call last):
>  >   File "C:\PYTHON22\Scripts\install-pythoncard.py", line 20, in ?
>  >     prg = get_special_folder_path("CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS")
>  > OSError: no such folder (CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS)
>  >
>  > As far as I can tell everything is installed correctly, but the start
>  > menu entries were not created.
>  
>  Well this is why I wanted to check what results other people got.
>  
>  I ran my tests under Win2K. It is quite possible that
>  "CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS" doesn't exist in Win95, Win98, or WinME. I looked in
>  regedit for CSIDL and didn't find anything. In fact, I'm not quite sure
>  whether the function get_special_folder_path comes from either in the line:
>  
>    prg = get_special_folder_path("CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS")
>  
This is a builtin function only available when Python is run
embedded in the installer.

And Kevin is right: CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS only exists under NT (or
later). I'm only using win2000 nowadays, and it's too easy to forget
that there are still other windows versions in use ;-).

>  We'll have to wait for Thomas to reply for some explanation as he wrote the
>  script. As Andy Todd mentioned, the script should probably be guarded with a
>  sys.platform[:3] == "win" check and exit if that isn't true early on.
>  Perhaps the special folder and that could just be part of a try/except
>  block.
>  

I will look into this issue this night and post an updated script.

Thomas



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