Windows 10 has “python” command that redirects to the Windows Store
I'm a developer who'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'm trying to compile or execute wants isn't the one the OS happens to be vending for it.<p>Some OSS projects suggest using things like pyenv to help. I don't know, it just seems to make things even worse for me because now even 'which python' doesn't tell me anything because it directs to some shell script shims that I can't parse or understand.<p>Python the language is wonderful, as are the libraries that exist for it.<p>Python the runtime/execution environment is actively hostile to users, and it's honestly keeping me from actually building anything real with it from the ground up.<p>I'm not surprised that Microsoft went with this approach to TRY to help it's users.<p>I'm also not surprised that Python devs are pissed because I'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't be angry at Microsoft, I'd be angry at the Python community for letting things get so bad.