On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:42 AM Sina Mobasheri <sinamobash...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Java offers download JDK as Compressed Archive or NodeJS offers download Node > as Binaries both give us a compressed file for Linux and windows that we can > just unzipped it and put in a custom directory and set some environment > variables and start working > > > I'm aware that Python also have something called Embedded Zip for Windows and > nothing like that for Linux as far as I know, and I think this Embedded Zip > is not something that the user wants to work with that directly it's for > embedding in a C++ application, so it's not the same as options that Java and > NodeJS offering > > > My question is why is Python haven't an option for downloading as Compressed > Archive? > Is it's due to a technical issue? political reasons? or is it just simply > because nobody has thought of doing it? >
https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
