• Installing Python-3.10.16

    From roc str@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jan 14 16:47:17 2025
    having a difficult time installing Python-3.10.16.tgz using
    the Python-3.20.0a2.exe installer.

    Please Advise
    Mario Ramos.

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  • From Mats Wichmann@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Jan 15 02:53:01 2025
    On 1/13/25 22:47, roc str via Python-list wrote:
    having a difficult time installing Python-3.10.16.tgz using
    the Python-3.20.0a2.exe installer.

    Please Advise
    Mario Ramos.


    Your question doesn't exactly make sense, but note this:

    Windows installers are not built for "security bugfix" releases. The
    last python.org release in the 3.10 series that had installers was
    3.10.11; subsequent 3.10 releases only consist of the source code (this pattern repeats for all Python release series, once they hit a certain
    age the move to source-only security bugfix releases, normally when
    there are two newer Python series available which would contain those
    fixes already).

    You have to download the source release and build it yourself if you
    need this. You can't install a source release using an installer for a different version.

    There are some instructions here:

    https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/index.html

    but note that they're oriented to building from a revision control
    checkout, not from a source release bundle.

    There should be some instructions somewhere on the internet if buildi-for-windows-from-a-source-release really is exactly what you need.

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