On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:47 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? > >
Premature send, oops. That's already possible: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html :) Alternatively, if you mean the CPython binary itself, then that is available in a number of formats, so I'm not sure what you're asking about in that case. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
