Can not install Plone 5.1.4 on Windows 10 [RESOLVED]

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I make a return of experience of the difficulties met to install Plone 5.1.4 under Windows 10 version 1803.
I tried the default installation, but also with the "target" and "instance" options for the same result.
Here are the error messages:
« C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd \

C:>cd Plone-5.1.4-UnifiedInstaller

C:\Plone-5.1.4-UnifiedInstaller>windows_install.bat standalone --password=admin --target=C:\Plone51 --instance=C:\Plone51\zinstance

C:\Plone-5.1.4-UnifiedInstaller>python helper_scripts\windows_install.py standalone --password=admin --target=C:\Plone51 --instance=C:\Plone51\zinstance
File "helper_scripts\windows_install.py", line 95
print _("Creating target directory " + opt.target)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

C:\Plone-5.1.4-UnifiedInstaller>windows_install.bat standalone --password=admin

C:\Plone-5.1.4-UnifiedInstaller>python helper_scripts\windows_install.py standalone --password=admin
File "helper_scripts\windows_install.py", line 95
print _("Creating target directory " + opt.target)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax»
Someone has another result?
On the other hand, I was able to install it on Windows server 2016.
I experiment with different situations and will explain the results and problems as soon as possible.

In advance, thank you for your answers

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This looks as if Python3 were used. Plone (and likely windows_install.py) still requires Python 2.

Ensure that Python2 is installed on your box and try python2 helper\scripts\windows_install.py ....

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It does look like the Python executable you invoked is not what Plone expects. Usually, the unified installer installs its own Python (2.7.x in this case) in a subdirectory. I have not run this latest unified installer on Windows so I'm not familiar with windows_install.bat or helper_scripts.

4

Maybe @smcmahon has suggestions?

5

Dieter's diagnosis is correct.

6

Dieter:
Indeed, it was python 3 that was used.
I made the necessary changes to use python 2.7.15.
From then on the installation is done.
Thanks for your help.

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