Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 12/19/22 14:47, Eryk Sun wrote: If you search a bit deeper, you'll find a site with unofficial Windows builds of many packages, including pygame for Python 3.11: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame Semi-OT: that's been a superb resource, but apparently it's no longer maintain

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Eryk Sun
On 12/18/22, Jim Lewis wrote: > > Sometimes it's a path issue. For whatever reason, Python installations on Windows lack versioned executable names (except for the Microsoft Store distribution). Thus adding multiple installations to PATH doesn't help unless "python.exe" is manually linked or copi

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Weatherby,Gerard
: Python-list on behalf of Thomas Passin Date: Monday, December 19, 2022 at 11:05 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Installation hell *** Attention: This is an external email. Use caution responding, opening attachments or clicking on links. *** On 12/19/2022 9:59 AM, Weatherby,Gerard

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2022-12-20 04:15:07 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 03:56, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > It is however, quite noticable that almost everyone who asks a question > > about their Python installation on this list is using Windows. I don't > > think this is just because there are

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 04:14, Thomas Passin wrote: > > On 12/19/2022 11:36 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 03:05, Thomas Passin wrote: > >> > >> That's not been my experience. Windows installers for Python have > >> worked well for me over many generations of Python releases

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 03:56, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > It is however, quite noticable that almost everyone who asks a question > about their Python installation on this list is using Windows. I don't > think this is just because there are more Windows users than Linux or > Mac Users. Yes. I thi

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Thomas Passin
On 12/19/2022 11:36 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 03:05, Thomas Passin wrote: That's not been my experience. Windows installers for Python have worked well for me over many generations of Python releases. It's Linux where I've found difficulties. For example, if your dist

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2022-12-19 10:55:52 -0500, Thomas Passin wrote: > On 12/19/2022 9:59 AM, Weatherby,Gerard wrote: > > Personally, I don’t use Windows and avoid it like the plague. > > Python is easy to install on Linux and Mac. > > That's not been my experience. Windows installers for Python have worked > well

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 03:05, Thomas Passin wrote: > > That's not been my experience. Windows installers for Python have > worked well for me over many generations of Python releases. It's Linux > where I've found difficulties. For example, if your distro's Python > install didn't include tkint

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Thomas Passin
On 12/19/2022 9:59 AM, Weatherby,Gerard wrote: Personally, I don’t use Windows and avoid it like the plague. Python is easy to install on Linux and Mac. That's not been my experience. Windows installers for Python have worked well for me over many generations of Python releases. It's Linux

Re: Installation hell

2022-12-19 Thread Weatherby,Gerard
Personally, I don’t use Windows and avoid it like the plague. Python is easy to install on Linux and Mac. I’d start here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/overview-of-python-tools-for-visual-studio?view=vs-2022 From: Python-list on behalf of Jim Lewis Date: Sunday, Dece