During the setup process, SQL Server 2017 can pull down and install its own edition of CPython 3.5, the stock Python interpreter available from the Python.org website.

SQL Server 2017 thus joins the faster service-enabled update approach that's been seen of late with Windows 10, Office 365 ProPlus and even Windows Server 2016, which will start a faster update ...

Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows.