No shortcut Icon on Desktop

[Mirko]

Am 13.04.2022 um 20:39 schrieb Dennis Lee Bieber:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:38:11 +1000, Tim Deke <tim.deke at gmail.com> declaimed
> the following:
> 
>> Dear Sir,
>>
>> I have successfully downloaded Python into my laptop but the shortcut icon
>> is not appearing on the desktop. I am using Windows 10 with the PC
>> specifications as per snap shot attached below. Can you advise what to do?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Tim Deke
>>

> 	Python normally does not create "shortcut icon"s -- one downloads an

The Python Windows installer *absolutely* should. I do not know much
about (modern) Windows, but one thing I do know is, that most
Windows users are confused when after an installation there is no
easy way to call the program. I do not understand, why the Windows
installer *still* does not create a "Python 3.10" _*or similar*_
folder on the desktop with links to IDLE (with an icon text
describing it properly as a Python Editor/IDE), the CHM and some
introduction text in it.

> installer (which on my system would be saved in %userprofile%\downloads),
> and executes the installer (once). Python is not an all-in-one GUI
> development environment (ie; it is not something like Lazarus/FreePascal,
> Visual Studio, etc.). It is an interpreter for script files and depending
> upon how the installer sets up the environment, one may never need to
> directly invoke the Python interpreter -- one just invokes .py script files
> and the OS activates the correct interpreter.

With all due respect, but do you really think that it is useful for
a Python beginner to know how to run the bare interpreter? ;-)

Wouldn't it be much better to educate them about IDLE which can be
found in the "Startmenu"?