Visual Studio 2017中Windows 7的Python支持

Question

I have 2 options here: I can go to Python's website and select the link that says python for windows and download the language from there, and then use any supported compiler-interpreter linker and debugger for it. The other alternative is I can choose Python Deployment from Visual Studio's 2017 Installer. The current version in the Visual Studio installer for Python is 3.6.3 which I'm fairly sure that if I install it into Visual Studio and there are any updates Visual Studio will let me know. If I choose to download Python from their website there newest version is 3.6.5. I'm not too concerned about the differences in the versions. I just need to have a working version of the language with a supported compiler - interpreter...

Is there any major difference from choosing the one over the other? I read through the MS docs about their tools for Visual Studio on Python and they do claim that if you already have it installed there is no need to check the boxes to install the core language through their installer as it will automatically detect if you have Python installed. For Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2017 which is more preferable: downloading Python from their website directly and then integrating it into Visual Studio; or just letting Visual Studio install its version for me? I am new to python; but I need a working version of it in order to build binaries for MPIR - MPFR - MPFRCPP.

The reason I asked is if I chose to install all the available options under Visual Studio it is about 18GB in size which would include Python's tools and different versions of Anaconda. However the Visual Studio documents also stated if you decide to use Python for Data Science to also select the Data Science & Analytical Applications from the workloads section. This would add about another 2GB. This would take some time to download and install postponing any and all of my project developments. I just want to know what I'm in store for and what is the better of my two options.

Answer 1

For Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2017 which is more preferable: downloading Python from their website directly and then integrating it into Visual Studio; or just letting Visual Studio install its version for me?

Just let Visual Studio 2017 download it for you, it is much more easy, but still the choice still depends on you because installing it through VS or their Website is likely the same.