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I meant the case when you have to use an other machine and naturally emacs users want to use emacs even there, so that's given. But on Windows, for example, pyt

I meant the case when you have to use an other machine and naturally emacs users want to use emacs even there, so that's given. But on Windows, for example, python may not be installed, so that's an extra install, while if you have your usual scripts in emacs then it's just a matter of installing one's emacs config which one does anyway. I use python too when it's the less hassle. E.g. when parsing a page with BeatifulSoup which would be more cumbersome in emacs without BeautifulSoup.

RMPR 6y ago
> But on Windows, for example, python may not be installed Actually Python is not a very good example since Windows now includes python and python3 commands by default[0] 0: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-10-may-2019-update/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-...
- OrderlyTiamat 6y ago
  Actually it's a great example, because regardless of what microsoft says, it doesn't actually include python, just an empty executable that exits and tells you to download python from the windows store. You have to manually fix you path to get that folder out if you want to download it through some other way, too.