Why does Python never add itself to the Windows path?

[Eric_Dexter at msn.com]

I don't seem to have any problem running python programs regardless of
where they are.  My platform is windows xp and I have run both 2.4 and
2.5 more details about what version of windows you are running might be
helpfull

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156455&package_id=174569

vbgunz wrote:
> Ben Sizer wrote:
> > I've installed several different versions of Python across several
> > different versions of MS Windows, and not a single time was the Python
> > directory or the Scripts subdirectory added to the PATH environment
> > variable. Every time, I've had to go through and add this by hand, to
> > have something resembling a usable Python installation. No such
> > problems on Linux, whether it be Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora Core, or
> > Kubuntu. So why is the Windows install half-crippled by default? I just
> > rediscovered this today when trying to run one of the Turbogears
> > scripts, but this has puzzled me for years now.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ben Sizer
> 
> excellent question