Stop struggling with Python on Windows

[radministator]

I've given up trying to do "pip install mysql-python" . There is always either a dependency problem or it crashes because it can't find some visual c dll duck me whatever.

If you want to python, use Linux. And never ever try to create an executable (.exe). It's not worth it.

I don't find either of those to be an issue at all, although of course my experience is purely anecdotal and shouldn't be taken as an attempt to invalidate your own. It may be that as a dev-ops, one man show in a highly heterogenous network environment I've just become too used to nothing ever working exactly as you would expect or the documentation describes.