Perhaps @zooba can help clarify.

I would very much like the downloads to offer:

• Store download (first, clearly marked, in theory using the badge that we're supposed to use to link to the store, but that upset people last time which is why it was removed)
• 64-bit installer (larger button)
• Other downloads (smaller text)

Eventually (hopefully), we'll have an ARM64 download as well, but I don't want to release that until there is CI available for package developers. The 32-bit build works well enough for those users right now.

But yes, the Store package is recommended unless:

• you need a system-wide install (or to do sysadmin-like tasks)
• you're going to use multiple versions of Python
• you're going to copy files from it into your own app/package/installer

Can we close this as a duplicate of #1611?

Hey dear I wanna suggest you to download python from python.org website instead of downloading it from Microsoft store...
I have an experience..
Thanks

@ned-deily No, it's a very different topic.

This issue is about it being unclear what the recommended distribution mechanism is on Windows.

There have been some side discussions about this, and we want to simplify the list of files.

@ned-deily Where do the sources for this page live? Or where is it generated from? I'm interested to figure out what possibilities we have (I know it's "just code" and we can do anything, but minimising change is also good).

You mean the content for https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ ?
The web page is generated in the python.org Django app from the table of release files maintained in the app database by release managers (either semi-automatically as described in PEP 101 or manually via the python.org Django admin interface). The code should primarily be in https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/tree/master/downloads and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/tree/master/templates/downloads.