[Python-ideas] Looking for input to help with the pip situation

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:28:20 +0100
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:14:50 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think Windows ever had python2.exe/python3.exe, but I could be wrong.    
> > 
> > Not that I'm aware of in the python.org installers, and I don't think
> > ActivePython does either. I'm less sure about Enthought or Anaconda
> > (since I've never used either of them on Windows).  
> 
> Looking at my Windows VM...
> 
> * from a Miniconda install (equivalent, I think, to a bare-bones
>   Anaconda with the minimal package set required for a function
>   "python" and "conda"):
> 
> c:\>where python  
> C:\Miniconda3\python.exe
> 
> c:\>where python3  
> INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
> 
> * from a user-created conda environment:
> 
> c:\>activate da36  
> 
> (da36) c:\>where python
> C:\Miniconda3\envs\da36\python.exe
> C:\Miniconda3\python.exe
> 
> (da36) c:\>where python3
> INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).

I forgot to mention that those "python.exe" are all Python 3.6
executables (or hardlinks thereof).

Regards

Antoine.