about special characters

[eryk sun]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:
>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:52 am, Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>> > (There has never been a Python 27. I assume Python 2.7 is what you
>> > meant.)
>>
>> I believe that Python X.Y shows up as "PythonXY" under Windows.
>
> Then that's a bug which should be fixed, IMO. An MS Windows user (i.e.,
> not me) would be well placed to describe the behaviour in a bug report.

It's Python X.Y in the start menu and Python X.Y.Z in sys.version. The
default installation directory is PythonXY (for 3.5.0 it was "Python
3.5"; this was reverted in 3.5.1), and the DLL is pythonXY.dll. The
executables are python.exe and pythonw.exe.