WinPython
A free Python-distribution for Windows platform, including prebuilt packages for Scientific Python. (by winpython)
python-shell
Run Python scripts from Node.js with simple (but efficient) inter-process communication through stdio (by extrabacon)
| WinPython | python-shell | |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | 4 | |
| 2,264 | 2,171 | |
| 0.4% | 0.0% | |
| 9.6 | 5.6 | |
| 19 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Python | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | - |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
WinPython
Posts with mentions or reviews of WinPython.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.
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One path to connecting a Python script to a COM application on Windows
STEP 1: Python on Windows What to install Download and install WinPython from https://winpython.github.io. I researched Python on Windows and in very short order understood that WinPython is the way to go. While it’s stated audience is scientists, data scientists and education, it fully serves the needs of personal projects. Also, it is available as a portable distribution with no requirement to register with Windows. This checked all the boxes.
- WinPython
- WinPython: Run Python, Spyder with SciPy on Any Windows PC
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Pip 23.1 Released - Massive improvement to backtracking
Feel free to share the resolver you wrote and we can test it on real world scenarios that are very difficult, here's a fun one that I remember: https://github.com/winpython/winpython/blob/master/Qt5_requirements64.txt
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IT does not allow me to have a Python environment on my computer.
WinPython maybe? https://winpython.github.io/. Its a local python installation.
- Run .py from a USB on a PC without installing phyton, possible?
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qBitTorrent search plugins - portable python runtime ?
how can i use the portable version of winpython from https://winpython.github.io to configure into qbittorrent to detect the runtime pre-requisites so that my portable qbittorent search can work? thx in advanced. #portablepython
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What you guys use to process data? Excel? r? python?
You equally are barred from e.g., WinPython which can work without an installation into the OS, too? Then - mechanically speaking - it wouldn't matter that the USB ports are permanently plastered with some polymer.
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Jupyterlab Desktop
Thank for answering. I understand that the interpreter situation can be annoying. There is WinPython [0] to circumvent that to some degree. I feel like if I don’t do it the „VSCode and py-file“ way, it’ll be more and more difficult to keep everything together when teaching about modularity and putting functions in helper scripts, putting tests in other directories and such. I think it’s just because I got used to using VSCode and not Notebooks although I’ve used them for a while.
[0] https://winpython.github.io
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How to learn Python without installation
One option would be to use a portable Python runtime. Like this one: https://winpython.github.io/
python-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of python-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-03-19.
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I maintain 1.4M npm downloads/week alone - so I built a tool to not lose my mind
I maintain 7 npm packages. Combined 1.4 million downloads per week. Packages like rrule (1.2M/wk), python-shell (162k/wk), and jquery-modal (21k/wk).
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I need a place to run a nodejs + python app integrated into the same app.
You can run python from Node with python-shell.
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Shipping Python and other static dependencies with Electron
I'm planing to use python-shell for python <-> mainIpc communication, but how do I ship python binary with all the necessary python dependencies?
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Is there python based electron available? [electronPython]
I don't believe that there is a version of Electron without Node.js and JavaScript. That said - there are several ways to run Python code from Electron, e.g. the python-shell module. See https://github.com/extrabacon/python-shell. So, you could have an Electron wrapper and front end, and use Python for all the back end code, if that would work for you; but I don't think you could avoid JavaScript altogether.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing WinPython and python-shell you can also consider the following projects:
PyWin32 - python for windows extensions
yup-phone - ☎️ Adds a phone number validation check to yup validator using google-libphonenumber
PythonNet - Python for .NET is a package that gives Python programmers nearly seamless integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and provides a powerful application scripting tool for .NET developers.
android-inapp-billing-v3 - A lightweight implementation of Android In-app Billing Version 3
pythonlibs - A Python wrapper for the extremely fast Blosc compression library
sfsymbols - Export the shapes in the SF Symbols font