Python 3.6 on Windows - does a python3 alias get created by installation?

Gisle Vanem gisle.vanem at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 00:19:03 EDT 2019


Eryk Sun wrote:

> The simplest way to create a shell link is via the Windows GUI shell,
> Explorer. To inherit the working directory of the parent process,
> leave the link's "start in" field empty. Also, add ".LNK" to the
> system PATHEXT environment variable to allow finding link files
> without having to include the ".lnk" file extension, i.e. to be able
> to run "python3.lnk <...>" as just "python3 <...>".

An "alias" could also simply be created using:
   doskey python3=f:\ProgramFiles\Python36\python.exe

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