On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:17 AM, BlueRidiculous <blueridicul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> How did you install Python? The Windows PSF installer from python.org >> will create this directory unless you uncheck the box to include tcl/tk. >> >> -- >> Terry Jan Reedy > > What is a PSF installer? Anyway, I installed the "Windows x86 MSI installer" > from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-344/ Is that correct?
Yep, that answers the question! Thanks. For the TLDR version, skip to the next email now. If you're curious, this is what Terry meant by "PSF installer". Python is available from a number of places. The most simple and straight-forward installers come direct from the Python Software Foundation, and are downloaded from python.org, which is what you've done. You can also get prepackaged distributions from Enthought, ActiveState, Anaconda, and other redistributors. They may charge money for what they give you (this is legal, even with free software like the Python interpreter), and they can promise things that the PSF doesn't, such as support for old/obscure operating systems, guaranteed response times on support requests, or pre-included (and compatibility-guaranteed) third-party libraries. What's significant here is that your problem is with the *installer*, not with the language itself. When an organization repackages Python in some way, they may replace the installer with something that puts things in different places, or has different default options. It's not very helpful for us to say "Rerun the installer, go to this point, and tick this box" if you're actually using (say) Anaconda's installer and it all looks different! So Terry was basically clarifying that he was talking about the vanilla installer that you can get off python.org, as opposed to any of the others. Hope that helps! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
