Python not showing correct version

[Sumeet Firodia]

So I disabled the manage app execution for python 3.10, created the py.ini
file and executed   setx.exe PY_PYTHON 3.8,    setx.exe PY_PYTHON3 3.8.
After that i uninstalled 3.8 and reinstalled and now the version is showing
correctly.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Thanks
Sumeet

On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 20:40, Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/1/23, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> >
> > I find user environment on windows to be less flexible to work with then
> > adding a py.ini. On my Windows 11 I added
> > %userprofile%\AppData\Local\py.ini.
> > To make python 3.8 the default that py.exe uses put this in py.ini:
> >
> > [defaults]
> > python=3.8-64
> > python3=3.8-64
>
> Using "py.ini" has the advantage that launcher always reads the file.
> The value of the environment variables, on the other hand, may be
> stale. If you keep a lot of shells running, it would be tedious to
> have to manually update the PY_PYTHON* variables in each shell. That
> said, it should be rare that one needs to change the persisted default
> versions. For temporary changes, the PY_PYTHON* environment variables
> are more flexible and take precedence over "py.ini".
>
> If one doesn't use "py.ini" to set the defaults, it's easy to modify
> the persisted user environment using "setx.exe"[^1]. For example:
>
>     setx.exe PY_PYTHON 3.8
>     setx.exe PY_PYTHON3 3.8
>
> setx.exe broadcasts a WM_SETTINGCHANGE "Environment" window message,
> which causes Explorer to update its environment. Thus any program run
> from Explorer will see the new values. A program launched in a new tab
> in Windows Terminal also gets a fresh environment. However, existing
> CLI shells (CMD, PowerShell, bash), and programs started by them, will
> still have the old environment values. The latter is where using
> "py.ini" to set the defaults has the advantage.
>
> ---
>
> [^1]: Note that "setx.exe" should never be used to set the persisted
> user or machine "Path" value to the current %PATH%. When loading the
> environment, the user "Path" gets appended to the machine "Path".
> Setting the entire expanded and concatenated value to one or the other
> leads to a bloated, redundant PATH value, and it also loses the
> flexible configuration based on REG_EXPAND_SZ values.
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