error of opening Python

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/26/2021 12:55 AM, Mladen Gogala via Python-list wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:22:35 +0000, Botao Liu wrote:
> 
>> Dear Python team,
>>
>> This is my first time using Python, I tried to launch Python and it
>> showed "Python 3.9.2 (tags/v3.9.2:1a79785, Feb 19 2021, 13:44:55) [MSC
>> v.1928 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or
>> "license" for more information." I don't know what this meant and how to
>> fix this. Could you please help me? Thank you very much.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Botao Liu
> 
> Try with this first: https://python.swaroopch.com/
> It gives you the details of what that means and what to do next. Also,
> your Python interpreter is broken 

No.

it says:
> 
> 
> It should say something like this:
> Python 3.9.2 (tags/v3.9.2:1a79785, Feb 19 2021, 13:44:55) [MSC
>> v.1928 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or
>> "license"

That is exactly what it does say, which is correct.

> -- [mgogala at umajor ~]$ python3
> Python 3.9.1 (default, Jan 20 2021, 00:00:00)
> [GCC 10.2.1 20201125 (Red Hat 10.2.1-9)] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>
> 
> The problem string is "win32".

No.  'win32' is a historical artifact.

  You should be able to open a terminal
> Window and execute "uname -r".

Not on Windows.  Please don't spew misleading garbage that will only 
confuse the new user on a different operating system.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy