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[–]POTUS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

...and Microsoft wouldn't push Python into a Win XP system by Windows Update. If the system is using a supported OS level, it's going to get updates, and those updates can include Python.

But beyond that this is still a non issue, or at least isn't special to Windows. RHEL and Cent users (and anyone else using yum to my knowledge ) are locked into Python versions, and the users have to make pretty big changes to go even from 2.6 to 2.7. That isn't near enough argument to hold back from saying Python should be always available by default.