[Zope] Python problems if one has Python 2.2 installed

[Yves Moisan]

Hi,

I haven't found a bug-report channel and there are such a number of mailing 
lists that I don't know where to submit this.  Please put the following 
message where it should go.

This is to report a glitch in the Wnidows installation of Zope 2.5.1.  The 
installation said it completed successfully, but this is not true since I 
had gotten the "'import site' failed; use -v for traceback" error message 
from Python at installation time.  I had to go check manually what was 
going on and I found that the Python that comes with Zope 
(.../bin/python.exe), which I gather runs Python 2.1, actually was looking 
for stuff in my Python 2.2 installation.  It said somewhere on the Zope 
site that the Python interpreter that comes with Zope does not interfere 
with other installations of Python.  This is simply not true.  I had a 
PYTHONPATH variable set for my Python 2.2 and I had to delete the 
environment variable for the Zope python interpreter to launch successfully 
( I tried putting the 2.1 dirs ahead, but that did not work).  There has to 
be a better shielding between the Zope Python interpreter and the outside 
world (especially other implementations of Python ...) and there has to be 
a definite mention of that problem in the install.txt file.

Cheers,

Yves Moisan
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