We all love the Python language, but it's the 200,000 plus packages that actually make Python

incredibly useful and productive.

But installing these packages and even installing Python itself can vary across the different

platforms.

In particular, Windows has had a hard time.

Many of the library authors don't use Windows, and so they don't test their packages on that

platform. Tutorial authors often start their tutorial steps by activating a virtual environment.

That's great. That's the great first step, but it is usually source VE&V slash bin slash activate,

and that doesn't work on Windows. Yet over 50% of all developers programming

in Python do so on Windows. In this episode, we'll welcome back Steve Dower. He works at Microsoft

and is a Python core developer. He has a bunch of statistics around Python and Windows for us.

He also has tons of good news on how Python and Windows is getting

much better. This is Talk Python to Me. Episode 243 recorded on location at Microsoft Ignite

in Orlando, Florida, November 8, 2019.

Thank you. Welcome to Talk Python to me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy. Keep up with a show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm.

And follow the show on Twitter via at talk python. Hey everyone, Michael here. I'm excited to tell

you about our latest course. Yes, we just released one a week or two ago, but here's another.

This time, it's a nine-hour course called Python for the

dot-net developer. The idea is if you have experience with C-sharp and dot-net and would like

to get better at Python, we'll take a bunch of common applications from the dot-net space and

recreate them in Python. For example, we'll take a data-driven web app in ASP.net and

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