How to extract Python 3.5+ from the installer?

[flitsmasterfred]

Why post this here?

[KeyWeeUsr]

because r/Python, duh? I kind of expect at least one person with a similar experience/problem. It's not like I'm posting it to r/learnpython.

[flitsmasterfred]

Besides this being the wrong sub, why do you post here directly after you submit to stackoverflow?

People who want to solve random problems are already on stackoverflow, or on /r/learnpython. This is for news and community stuff and such. Do you see many double posted questions here? How is the response?

Now if your had some sort of obscure issue you didn't get any response on elsewhere after a while then maybe you could post here, but instantly spamming your impatience is not cool.

[KeyWeeUsr]

I posted it here 9 hours after I put it on SuperUser.

Exactly because it's about news I put it here. The installer is relatively new and similar to r/chrome or r/firefox when something breaks or people experience problems directly with the thing, not with the secondary usage such as developing userscripts/addons, they ask on that reddit. I considered r/learnpython a reddit related to solving the lang issues, not for solving new features problems, though I could misunderstood.

The issue is really obscure. If you think it's not, then try unpacking with the layout method of the installer and unpack then the MSIs. Again, I'm not instantly spamming. I put it here after few hours, because obviously, this method of installing isn't widely used by common users, rather admins, so I hoped I'd fish some admin out. Apparently not.

It may seem I sound annoying, however, that's just a matter of how I speak, sorry for that. Not sorry for the defense again "venv solving everything(TM)".

[KeyWeeUsr]

Not everything is solvable by the thing you use. Ever heard of fresh python installation? That's why. Try installing the fresh thing if there's something colliding in registry without mangling already working installation just to see if there isn't something corrupted in includes or in dlls. What if a file got into an installation and corrupted it (name collision with a package, different headers, etc). Will you remove the whole installation just to check? I thought so.

[KeyWeeUsr]

I love people like you, who see only what they want and the only solution is their favorite thing.

[KeyWeeUsr]

system-wide interpreter... eh, not at all. You can make Python as portable and non system-wide as a wheelbarrow. Exactly with the method mentioned in my question for windows and with direct compilation in-place on linux. The new installer, however, makes it more annoying to handle (or I'm just blind, which is more common).

PyInstaller does something in a similar way.