[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2039: Startup Error

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#2039: Startup Error
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 Reporter:  akdeakin  |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  6.4.4                    
Component:  Startup   |     Version:  6.4.3 RCs                
 Keywords:  wingrass  |    Platform:  MSWindows 7              
      Cpu:  x86-64    |  
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Comment(by mlennert):

 Replying to [comment:10 hellik]:
 > Replying to [comment:9 mlennert]:
 > >
 > > Could someone check what exact version ArcGIS installs. I suspect <
 2.7.4.
 >
 > have a look at http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2015#comment:6
 >
 > {{{
 > => it's the system wide python 2.7.2 installed by ArcGIS10.1.
 > }}}
 >
 > >
 > > Unfortunately, the Python launcher discussed in the thread Helmut
 points to in comment:7 seems to only take into account minor version
 numbers, but not revision numbers, so there does not seem to be a way to
 distinguish between two versions of 2.7 on the machine.
 >
 > see also http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2015#comment:6
 >
 > >
 > > Is it possible to uninstall the python installed by ESRI ?
 >
 > only if you deinstall ArcGIS ...
 >
 > >
 > > One option would probably be to delete the registry key entries of the
 ESRI Python version, install a more recent Python (e.g. 2.7.5) and install
 the Python launcher.
 >
 > but then ArcGIS is unusable

 Is this because of a specific pythonpath they register ?

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