New submission from jt <jonas@thiem.email>:

It would be really useful if you could provide a .zip Windows release of Python 
that is not crippled/for embedding only.

The reason is simply is that right now, I am having constant pain & trouble 
with it writing an automated build script for Windows (.bat) that works on a 
Python-free machine.

Specifically the installer has:

1.) no usable functionality in an automated build environment (%PATH% is very 
unnecessary or even undesirable to set up for a Python install only temporarily 
downloaded for a build)

2.) possibly conflicts with existing installs (making an automated build 
break/affect other Python installs/leaving other side effects, which is 
extremely undesirable and ugly)

3.) can break into a completely unusable state when interrupted (where the 
install doesn't complete, but running it again also doesn't, needing 
complicated special logic to nuke it)

NONE of these would be an issue if there was just a .zip. And there is, of 
course, in form of the embedded install - but that one is useless to me for an 
automated build because I need pip, and it doesn't support running pip.

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components: Installation, Windows
messages: 335687
nosy: jt, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Please provide a .zip Windows release of Python that is not crippled/for 
embedding only
versions: Python 3.8

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