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r/sysadmin on Reddit: Explain Python installation and management to a Windows admin

March 31, 2025 -

Hello!

Does anyone know a good resource that explains the architecture of Python from a packaging and maintenance perspective? I took a look at the official docs, and as far as I can tell, you have the runtime, then you have packages, modules and libraries. I'm not sure what each of these are, some might be the same thing? And where each of these gets installed and how it's configured. Any advice on how to manage this on Windows would be greatly appreciated.

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So, a thing just came up here where we built a bunch of non-persistent VDIs for a new set of users. Project went well, came in under budget and on time, users verified the solution and everyone was happy.

That was a month ago. Now they reached out going "We have to have Python! Why are the machines non-persistent! We are installing things and they disappear!". All of this was covered and highlighted multiple times during the project, they claimed they understood and chose non-persistent machines over personal persistent machines since, like most of us, they liked the idea of less work for them and us managing updates and not needing to install everything themselves.

Now, they are saying they need Python and the number 50-100 applications or libraries has been thrown around. No-one has provided a list or a very clear requirement yet. Mostly because this would require work on their part listing what they need so we know what to install.

thats a slippery slope, I'd suggest keep it ephemeral - steering them to use git or if they want persistence and dont know what they want something like a docker instance of jupyter notebook or something more like anaconda notebook. But package management for python when it isnt defined will break you

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Windows Python installations can be either machine wide (%PROGRAMFILES%) or within the user profile (%LOCALAPPDATA%). On Windows, pip, the Python package manager comes preinstalled. I'm going to assume you've provided the machine-wide installation. When installing Python packages globally, which I would discourage, Python attempts to install the packages to \lib\site-packages\ for pure Python packages and a mixture of other folders (\Include\, \Scripts\) within the Python directory for C header files, binaries, etc. Ideally your users would use venv to create "virtual environments" in some persistent directory to develop their applications. This creates a sort of "skeleton" set of folders (\Include\, \Scripts\, \Lib\) where the user can install packages and develop an application in that doesn't effect the global Python installation. This will also prevent a host of problems with dependency conflicts that can happen if you install all your packages globally. As a side note, virtual environments also come with an activate.bat within \Scripts\ to activate the virtual environment and allow the packages to be installed and run within it. There will still undoubtedly be issues with user buy-in, especially if they've never used venv, or prefer to go with something like conda. Disclaimer: I've never used non-persistent VDIs, but have used Python extensively in my past position as a software developer.

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June 11, 2025 - Python’s core development team has developed a new tool, the Python Installation Manager for Windows, to handle both of these functions: managing installed versions of Python, and choosing which version to use when launching Python.

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it seems python released it's own version manager (like pyenv, uv) , which can help manager mutiple python versions and set default , auto download ...

it't very new , i just found out yesterday , i didn't see people talk about it

any way , it's new and provide more options , we can try it .

This seems to be windows specific and only for Python interpreter versions? So I don't think it compares to the others listed.

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What's the alleged advantage over uv and pyenv?

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There is also information about MSI packages (for cases where MSIX installation is not possible), for example in section 4.1.10. 2025-11-23 05:10:15Z+00:00 ... The table on https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-250/ says "Bundles Python 3.14.0", so no, that probably doesn't need an internet connection.

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Removing the install manager will not remove any installs, but the py uninstall --purge command will perform a full cleanup. The Python install manager will automatically update within a day of an update being released.

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reddit.com › r/learnpython › first time downloading the install manager and i'm having issues.

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You’re trying to install tkinter with pip, but that will never work — tkinter is not a pip-installable package on Windows.

tkinter ships with the official CPython installers (from python.org).

What you installed via Python Installation Manager is the Microsoft Store build (a.k.a. PythonCore), which does not bundle tkinter and, more importantly, cannot load extensions built with the regular CPython ABI.

I recommend Uninstall the Microsoft Store Python and Install the official Python

r/learnpython on Reddit: First time downloading the install manager and I'm having issues.

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I need this for a lab for school. I am trying to get the latest python.

I'm on windows 11

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Goes to windows downloads.

Goes to https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3143/

Go to "Download Python install manager" as it's the only apparent option

The file is called "python-manager-25.2.msix"

When I open the manager it asks me what application I want to open it with?

Not sure what I would even try and picking a browser doesn't work.

When I looked at other tutorials they just open it and it takes them to the manager, no hassle. They aren't prompted to pick an app.

Any help would be appreciated.

First. Always , always , always post the links you are referring to. Second. Always , always , always refer to the official site. If Python then Python.org Pls try again.

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This means your windows is misconfigured and does not know what to do with .msix files. Not really sure how to fix that, but I suppose you could try running it from the terminal. The brand new install manager is terrible anyway IMO. I recommend you use the "Or get the standalone installer for Python 3.14.3" option on the download page instead. Pinging u/ninhaomah and u/EelOnMosque : With python 3.14 the PSF decided to change the big download button on python.org for windows users, so that it no longer gets a python installer, it now gets a uv wannabe terminal program called the "python install manager", which in turn runs winget commands. And this is packaged as a .msix https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-252/ https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-install-manager

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However, with the msiexec.exe command line utility, additional features are available, like non-interactive installation and administrative installation. ... msiexec /i python<version>.msi installation can be initiated programmatically.

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If you face issues when using Python and pip installed using these mechanisms, it is recommended to request for support from the relevant provider (eg: Linux distro community, cloud provider support channels, etc). ... Windows, Linux and macOS. CPython 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 and latest PyPy3. pip is tested to work on the latest patch version of the Python interpreter, for each of the minor versions listed above.

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February 18, 2026 - Python 3.14 introduced the Python Install Manager, which is a modern installation system that handles version management and automatic updates. This new tool is available through the Microsoft Store and Python.org.

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January 22, 2026 - There are plenty of alternatives. You can install Python via Scoop, uv, or like a dozen other ways. ... I know I'm way behind the times, but I've never tried any of those. Do any of them support shebangs like the python launcher (py.exe) did? ... Highly suggest using uv to manage python versions.