On 12.04.2012 06:47, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/11/2012 3:37 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> Downloads are at >>>> http://python.org/download/releases/2.6.8/ >> http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/ >> This page lists 'program databases' after the normal msi installers for > Windows. I am puzzled and curious as to what those are, and I suspect > other naive users will be too. >>> http://python.org/download/releases/3.1.5/ >> http://python.org/download/releases/3.2.3/ >> No such thing here. Here they are called "Visual Studio debug information files". I agree that "program database", while it is the official name of the file and the literal meaning of the file extension ".pdb", is not a very good description. Georg