On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 21:32, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote:
>
> In the next Windows 10 update that starts rolling out today, we
> (Microsoft) have added "python.exe" and "python3.exe" commands that are
> installed on PATH *by default* and will open the Microsoft Store at the
> page where we (Python core team) publish our build.
>
> This makes it a 1-2 click process to get from a clean machine to having
> a usable Python install ("python.exe" -> opens Store -> "Get it Free" ->
> "python.exe" now works!)This is great. Thanks for this Steve. A lot of novices struggle to get Python installed and running on Windows. Not being on PATH is a particular problem for them so this looks very useful. Of course it doesn't take long before a novice programmer needs some other libraries (numpy, matploblib etc for my students) so I wonder how that part works. Is this doing a single-user or system wide install? After install is IDLE available via start menu? How does pip fit into this? Will pip be on PATH after install? -- Oscar _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
