For many, many years I've always installed ActiveState's ActivePython Community edition when forced to use Windows. It has always included all of the "extra" libraries that I didn't wan't to install (or couldn't because I didn't have a C compiler for Windows).
I recently decided to upgrade my Win7 machine from ActivePython 3.5.4 to 3.6. ... and all of apps stopped working. ActivePython 3.6 appears to be a minimal install that includes nothing but CPython. Comparing the download sizes makes this obvious: -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users 223056832 Mar 26 2018 ActivePython-2.7.14.2717-win64-x64-404905.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users 225065576 May 29 2018 ActivePython-3.5.4.3504-win64-x64-404899.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users 30297136 Feb 13 16:28 ActivePython-3.6.0.3600-win64-x64-401834.exe I've searched the ActiveState web site, and the fact that they've stopped including "extra" libraries doesn't seem to be documented anywhere. I guess it's time to switch to Anaconda or ??? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this going to at involve RAW human ecstasy? gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list