Using Python on Windows is a dream. Python uses and needs the system, but the system does not use Python.
Every Python version is installed in its own isolated space, site-packages included and without any defined environment variable. Every Python can be seen as a different application. Knowing this, it is a no-problem to use the miscellaneous versions; can be with the console, with an editor, with .bat or .cmd files, with the Windows "start menu" launcher, ... like any application. The file extension is a double sword. Do not use it or unregister it, the msi installer allows to do this. It is the same task/problem as with any file, .txt, .png, ... The new Python launcher is a redondant tool. A point of view from a multi-users desktop user. ---- In my mind, it is a mistake to deliver a ready preconfigurated installation. "TeX" (I may say, as usual) is doing fine. A "TeX" installation consists usually only in "TeX" engines installation/configuration. It let the user work the way he wishes. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
