I’ve had a look online and can’t figure out how to install the latest patch on an older version of Python.

I’m on Windows, with no admin rights. I want to upgrade 3.10.1 to 3.10.15, without losing any of my installed libraries (like pandas). I don’t want to upgrade to the latest minor version (3.12.x).

Common answers:

just download the latest installer?! No, I need to use 3.10.x for various reasons. 3.10.15 doesn’t have an .exe installer to download

use chocolatey. No, I can’t as I don’t have admin rights on my work laptop

extract the tarball. I’ve downloaded Python-3.10.15.tgz and can extract using tar command, but where do I extract it to? The extracted root folder is called ‘Python-3.10.15’ whereas my current Python folder is called ‘Python310’, so I’m not sure an extraction would overwrite…

Any ideas or reference docs?