Re: Problems with IDLE in Windows 8.1 and installer x86 Version 3.10.8

[darkstone at o2online.de]

Dear list,


>>So please check that you are running the right version of Python when 
>>you type "python".



If i type “python”, it is


C:\>python -V
Python 3.11.0
















Von: Thomas Passin
Gesendet: ‎Sonntag‎, ‎13‎. ‎November‎ ‎2022 ‎16‎:‎18
An: darkstone at o2online.de





On 11/13/2022 9:32 AM, Thomas Passin wrote:
> When you ran "python -V", the current directory was the top-level Python 
> directory.  So the Python version would automatically have been the same 
> as that directory's Python, that is, 3.11.
 >
 > When you ran the idlelib self test, you may have been in a different
 > directory, and so a different version of Python might possible have
 > been running.

To illustrate this point, on my system:

C:\Users\tom>python -V
Python 3.9.9

but

C:\Users\tom>py -V
Python 3.10.4

With the "py" script, I can run 3.9x this way:

py -3.9 -V
Python 3.9.9

and also:

C:\Users\tom>py -3.7 -V
Python 3.7.9

So please check that you are running the right version of Python when 
you type "python".