Python install on Windows
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There's also the "minor" issue that python creates files in its directory (pyc). Needing UAC to run python would be an even larger
It's not as big a deal as it sounds -- this can be avoided simply by precompiling the standard modules at install time, and using a user-local site-packages.
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Problem two: It didn't add itself anywhere that's on my path, or add itself to my path. I have to go manually add it.
When I installed Python a while ago, that was an option hidden in the "components to install" screen, disabled by default.
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There's also the "minor" issue that python creates files in its directory (pyc). Needing UAC to run python would be an even larger
I've been running into that. It manages to up the WTF level of the Python ecosystem by quite a lot of dB…
And yes, I'm implying that WTF levels are best measured on a logarithmic scale.
