About Python Compressed Archive or Binaries

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:42 AM Sina Mobasheri
<sinamobasheri at outlook.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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?
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https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html

:)

ChrisA