[gcarvalho]

For me it's the easiest and fastest cross-platform way to consistently install a Python version.

pip and venv work fine, but you have to get them first; and that can be a struggle for unseasoned python devs, especially if you need a version that's not what your distro ships, and even more so on Windows and macOS.

I use micromamba [1] specifically, which is a single binary.

[1] https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/micromamba...

[RockRobotRock]

Maybe it's because I came into Python later, but I've almost never had the problem of pip not being installed. That's what ensurepip is for, right?