On 6/10/2020 11:30 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2020-06-11, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Since this comes up on a weekly basis, perhaps the installer should open
that web page to section 3.8.1 after a successful installation. Maybe
users would read that short section and not try to run the installer
over and over again. Or since that can be annoying, a prominent "how to
get started" link to click on. I dunno.
Suggestions like this also get made regularly. I'm baffled why the
Python installer doesn't display an initial screen that says something
like.
This is the Python INSTALLER. If you have installed Python,
here's what you do to run it:
<I don't know what goes here since I don't use Windows>
Click the buttons below only if you want to INSTALL, UNINSTALL,
or REPAIR Python. See the above instruction to use/run Python.
I'm not sure why users think the installer is the python interpreter
after running it the first time, but apparently many do.
Indeed. Is the file name not clear that it's an installer?
No. python-3.8.3-amd64.exe, which is typical naming for install files.
I opened
https://bugs.python.org/issue40948
and suggested adding '-setup' or '-install', as well as instructions on
the initial screen for existing installs, and, if not present, the final
screen for new installs.
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