gh-75608: Add Windows FAQ entry for missing CRT #92765
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Did anyone ask the poster which version of Windows they are using? When the CRT isn't installed, the installer will install it automatically (into the Python directory), but there may be some weird case where it can detect it even though it's not installed (particularly if the user has been downloading individual files from it already...) |
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>
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This at least says Windows 7, and I do see some more instances in the mailing list but not all of them say the Windows version they're on. |
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I wonder if there's some app out there that installs the 32-bit CRT globally (or on PATH), but doesn't include the 64-bit one? That might cause the installer (which is always 32-bit) to detect it, but Python itself to fail. The official 64-bit package always installs both. Anyway, the FAQ entry is fine. Though I doubt whether any of these reports would have found it before finding the mailing list. As pointed out, there are plenty of other explanations online that would have helped. |
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GH-97506 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.10 branch. |
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GH-97507 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch. |
(cherry picked from commit 80bc7d7) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 80bc7d7) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
#75608
https://docs.python.org/3/faq/windows.html
(still a current problem, see here)