I have not encountered a system yet where Python isn’t installed out of the box.

dotancohen · on Nov 1, 2021

Windows, possibly. And as for the *nixes, including Macs, what version is installed? The way Python 2 eol was extended and extended and extended just hurt the whole ecosystem.

vlovich123 · on Nov 1, 2021

Windows doesn't have bash preinstalled so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up. On all OSes I've used in the past 3-4 years all of them have been Python3 by default. The specific version is largely irrelevant as I could ask you the same question about which version of bash is running on a given OS (e.g. it's not available on Mac out of the box as the default shell is zsh due to GPLv3).

dotancohen · on Nov 4, 2021

  > Windows doesn't have bash preinstalled

I meant Python preinstalled.

  > On all OSes I've used in the past 3-4 years all of them have been Python3 by default.

Windows comes with Python preinstalled now?