IIRC, there was a secondary component that acted as a full windows scripting host and could even be consumed within internet explorer to run python scripts much

IIRC, there was a secondary component that acted as a full windows scripting host and could even be consumed within internet explorer to run python scripts much like how you could use vbscript in webpages at one point. (what an ill-advised little escapade that was). I'm not sure how you would even use it now, so maybe it still exists! I guess maybe you'd use wscript.exe with a special command line flag?