Python not showing correct version

[Thomas Passin]

On 3/31/2023 2:18 PM, Eryk Sun wrote:
> On 3/31/23, Sumeet Firodia <ssfirodia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One more thing is that pip --version also refers to python 3.10
>>
>> C:\Users\admin>pip --version
>> pip 23.0.1 from
>> C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Packages
>> \PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0
>> \LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\pip
>> (python 3.10)
> 
> You're running pip from the store app distribution of Python 3.10.
> Your settings have the store app set as the default for the "python"
> and "pip" commands. To change this, open the system settings for "App
> execution aliases" and disable the "python.exe", "pythonw.exe", and
> "pip.exe" aliases. You might have to also disable the alias for
> "python3.exe" if it's causing problems (e.g. if you don't want a
> shebang like "#!/usr/bin/env python3" to run the store app). It
> shouldn't cause problems to leave the "python3.10.exe" and
> "pip3.10.exe" aliases enabled.

Ha! The store app doesn't install py.exe, does it?  I forgot about that 
as a possibility, because I've always stayed away from store apps. If it 
were me, I'd uninstall the store app and get an installer from python.org.