The py launcher is optionally installed during the setup process when you first install Python on Windows. At one point, you’ll be prompted to do so, as per the screenshots shown below.

If you see Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 when Installing Python, then the setup tool on your computer might not be installed or updated.

Installing Python scripts (as opposed to modules) is a too involved using distutils/setuptools. Those do not take into account zipped archives and scripts using a GUI toolkit. So these setup scripts ...

I've been trying to get colcon to honor the "install_requires" field of "setup.py", only to stumble upon this post where I learned it's not a supported field (at least it doesn't behave the same wa ...

How to install Python on Windows Python installs on Windows in much the same way as any other application, by way of an installer that guides you through the setup process.

To install the pip package, you will need to first download and set up a bootstrapping script called “get-pip.py.” There are two different ways to complete the download instructions for the script in ...