LilyPond and Python

[Hilary Snaden]

After severe problems (which seemed to include a version conflict) with 
a Python hack, I uninstalled Python and LilyPond, then reinstalled first 
Python and then LilyPond without its bundled Python (largely to see if 
it still worked).

So far it /has/ still worked, with my Python script calling what's now 
the only Python version on the machine, and LilyPond apparently working 
as usual. (I also had to hack around a Python package to make it work 
with 3.2.2, but that's another story.)

The question is, how dependent on Python is LilyPond? Am I likely to 
find problems in the future? (Python 3 syntax is very different from the 
version 2 which LilyPond wants to install.)

BTW when LilyPond uninstalled, it left behind a lot of redundant entries 
in the Windoze registry. Not being a registry guru I have nothing 
constructive to add beyond commenting on this. :-(

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Hilary