Windows 10 has “python” command that redirects to the Windows Store
I&#x27;m a developer who&#x27;s never had to ship serious production systems with Python, but I have had to modify the occasional library or open source package. i.e. I know just enough to get myself into trouble...<p>I develop on a Mac where in theory everything should be easier:<p>* Comes with Python out of the box<p>* Platform has ubiquitous and wonderful package manager (Homewbrew)<p>And yet, 90% of my interactions with Python via the CLI involve it crashing because the version that the current thing I&#x27;m trying to compile or execute wants isn&#x27;t the one the OS happens to be vending for it.<p>Some OSS projects suggest using things like pyenv to help. I don&#x27;t know, it just seems to make things even worse for me because now even &#x27;which python&#x27; doesn&#x27;t tell me anything because it directs to some shell script shims that I can&#x27;t parse or understand.<p>Python the language is wonderful, as are the libraries that exist for it.<p>Python the runtime&#x2F;execution environment is actively hostile to users, and it&#x27;s honestly keeping me from actually building anything real with it from the ground up.<p>I&#x27;m not surprised that Microsoft went with this approach to TRY to help it&#x27;s users.<p>I&#x27;m also not surprised that Python devs are pissed because I&#x27;ve also been in those shoes where FINALLY everything is working, and you think you have that one version of python 2 and one version of python 3 both running and coexisting and everything you need to run runs, and then something small changes and WHAM the whole house of cards collapses.<p>But I wouldn&#x27;t be angry at Microsoft, I&#x27;d be angry at the Python community for letting things get so bad.