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Installer diagnostic messages could be more helpful #96649

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Installer messages about a file issue should include the full path to the file instead of only the file name.

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The 3.10.7 installer has been failing for me, first to upgrade from 3.10.4 and, after 3.10.4 was uninstalled, failing to install 3.10.7 at all. The failure includes a number of messages like this one and after six of seven similar messages (only the filename changes) I cancel the install since it looks like it will not be working correctly even if it finishes.

IMO, uninformative diagnostic messages are actually a bug, but I thought phrasing this as a feature request might sound more polite.

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None that I'm aware of, sorry. I only had Python installed because another product I was using required it so I know nothing about the Python community.

[EDIT]
FWIW, I was originally trying to run the installer as my normal user ('steve') who is also the system administrator and accepting the UAC prompt to elevate the installer. Every one of those attempts produced errors as shown in the example linked above. I just tried using "Run as Administrator" instead, and the install completed without error. So appears there may also be some sort of bug in the installer, but other than what I just wrote, I've no idea how to describe it.

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