The installer for Python is available on www.python.org. Hover over the Downloads menu item and the auto-detected installer will be show. If you need an alternate installer, click View the full list of downloads and select Linux/UNIX, macOS, or Other in the banner.
At the time of this writing 3.11.1 was the most recent release of Python.
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The Python installation includes many options, and we’ll configure this for our single user profile as well.
Customized Installation
We’ll deselect “Use admin privileges when installing py.exe” and select a customized installation because we only need a subset of what the full Python installer offers.
Optional Features
The only optional feature we need is pip – the Python package management application. We can de-select all others. If you’d like the other settings, go ahead, and install them.
Complete the installation with the rest of the defaults.
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