Using win32all with PY20

Joakim Löw | Last updated 4 May 2001

Using win32all with PY20

One of the advantages of PY20 is that it does not add any information to the Windows registry upon installation. This gives it the ability to coexist with other Python installations. However, the win32all installer requires some information from the registry, and therefore PY20 must be registered before installing win32all.

To register PY20 simply download the regpy20 script and run it. PY20 will be automatically registered and ready for use with win32all. This script currently works with win32all built for Python 2.0. If you wish to use another build you have to change the 'version'-parameter in the script to the version of Python that the win32all build was built for.

The script adds the following keys to the registry:

'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\Pythoncore\2.0\InstallPath' and 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\Pythoncore\2.0\PythonPath'

and sets the data values of the keys to 'C:\py20\' and 'C:\py20\;C:\py20\Lib\;C:\py20\DLLs\' respectively.