Comment by dent9

> I still genuinely do not understand why this is a serious selling point. Linux systems commonly already provide (and heavily depend upon) a Python distribution

Sounds like you've never actually used Python. You should never, ever be using the system Python for anything you need to run yourself. Don't even touch it. It's a great way to break your entire system. Many distros have stopped providing it at all, for good reason.

The first step every Python dev has to take on every single system they want to run their project on is to install their own sandboxed version of Python and it's libraries and it's library manager. Alternatively you pre build a docker container with it all packed inside which is the same basic thing.

Better option still is to simply ditch Python and switch to compiled languages that don't have this stupid problems.