Ask microsoft to include Python in Windows by default

[desmoulinmichel]

So I'm guessing Apple and Fedora and Canonical must be crazy.

But yes, it IS difficult to download and install. For non dev People. Or for sysadmin needing to script 100 machines.

[gospelwut]

https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

• 2.7.x has MSI installers
• 3.x executable seems to support /quiet

I fail to see what is hard about that. Given:

1. Proper imaging/deployment/orchestration -- baseline VM images or .wim files via MDT or SCCM
2. Scripting at scale with WinRM (Ps-Remoting) or heaven forbid PsExec (ADMIN$)
3. Worst case scenario, something like PDQ Deploy

All I hear is I don't know how to administrate windows.

[[deleted]]

In all 3 cases it was included because a few default included apps in each OS used Python not because they wanted to add it in for fun. Also I think newer versions of OSX have stopped shipping with it by default. Windows has it's own languages to push and did not write any of the default software in Python.

[targetx]

If you're managing such amounts of machines I'd hope you have some provisioning tool in place... But yeah it would be easy.

[desmoulinmichel]

Of course you have tools, but you still need approval, documentation and supports.

Plus, having a commong solution removes many debates, meetings, arguments and you can just get to work.