Python ‘pip’ and Windows registry corruption
Background
In my recent post about setting up a 64 bit Windows Django development environment, I described an initial problem with Virtualenv which then led me through a whole series of problems and fixes and finally to what I thought was a working 64 bit Python development environment. However, I recently realised that the original underlying issue still remained, such that any attempt to install a new package using pip would result in failure due to that same error message.
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