Assistance Request - Issue with Installing 'pip' despite Python 3.10 Installation

[Thomas Passin]

On 6/8/2023 6:23 PM, Eryk Sun wrote:
> on 6/8/23, Thomas Passin via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> It always gets installed, though.
> 
> By default, the option to install pip is enabled. It's implemented by
> executing ensurepip after the interpreter is installed. However,
> ensurepip may silently fail during installation. As a CPython triager
> I've come across this problem a couple of times, but it should be
> rare. It can possibly be resolved by manually executing ensurepip via
> the following command:
> 
>      py [-3[.X]] -m ensurepip --default-pip --upgrade --verbose
> 
> If Python is installed for all users, the latter should be executed
> from a shell that has administrator access. Even if this command also
> fails, the verbose output in the console may be helpful to further
> diagnose the problem.

Hah! I *knew* someone would come up with an exceptional case.  It would 
be pretty hard for an ordinary user to know about this encantation or 
make progress if something does go wrong.   Lucky for me I've always had 
the python.org installer work smoothly.

"By default, the option to install pip is enabled" - Why would someone 
opt not to install pip, though?  Would that be an attempt to prevent 
users from installing packages on their own?