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Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update?

May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 05/21/19
Steve Dower
Today the Windows team announced the May 2019 Update for Windows 10. In this post we’re going to look at what we, Microsoft's Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows by helping the community publish to the Microsoft Store and, in collaboration with Windows, adding a default “python.exe” command to help find it...

Microsoft’s participation in the 2016 Python core sprint

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Brett Cannon
From September 5th to the 9th a group of Python core developers gathered for a sprint hosted at Instagram and sponsored by Instagram, Microsoft, and the Python Software Foundation. The goal was to spend a week working towards the Python 3.6.0b1 release, just in time for the Python 3.6 feature freeze on Monday, September 12, 2016. The ...

Using CPython’s Embeddable Zip File

April 26, 2016 Apr 26, 2016 04/26/16
Steve Dower
On the download page for CPython 3.5.1, you'll see a wide range of options. Not all of these are well explained, especially for Windows users who have seven (seven!) choices. (image) Let me restructure the Windows items into a more feature-focused table: As is fairly common with installers these days, you have the choice to download ...

How to deal with the pain of “unable to find vcvarsall.bat”

April 11, 2016 Apr 11, 2016 04/11/16
Steve Dower
Python's packaging ecosystem is one of its biggest strengths, but Windows users are often frustrated by packages that do not install properly. One of the most common errors you'll see is this one: (image) As far as errors go, "unable to find vcvarsall.bat" is not the most helpful. What is this mythical batch file? Why do I need it? Where ...