[issue38506] Launcher for Windows (py.exe) may rank Python 3.xx (in the future) after 3.x

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

You're right that this will need fixing. But we don't really have to fix it any earlier than 3.10 - the launcher is backwards-compatible but not necessarily forwards-compatible. Still, we can take a fix whenever.

Probably it should just change to using CompareStringEx with (at least) the SORT_DIGITSASNUMBERS flag.

https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/stringapiset/nf-stringapiset-comparestringex

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stage:  -> test needed
versions:  -Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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