Thank you so much for your assistance . The fault was actually mine: I was running a command with python3, instead of just python. python3 works for Mac, but not Windows.
I'm fairly new to Python so I was just following along a tutorial, and I didn't take note of the fact that the command didn't work because the tutorial was done on a MacBook, while I'm using a Windows device. Thanks for your help, Regards On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:14 AM Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/13/22, Jonathan Owah <owahjonat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've been trying to configure my laptop to run python scripts. > > This is the error I keep getting: > > Python was not found; run without arguments to install from the Microsoft > > Store, or disable this shortcut from Settings > Manage App Execution > > Aliases. > > If you keep seeing this message, then the shell is finding and running > Microsoft's default "python.exe" redirector app execution alias that's > located in "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps". By default, this > directory is set at the beginning of the user "Path" value in the > registry and thus takes precedence (but not over the system "Path"). > Confirm this by running `where.exe python`. > > An app execution alias is a special type of filesystem symbolic link > to a store app's executable. These aliases are created in a user's > "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps" directory. Store apps > themselves are usually installed in "%ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps", > which is a system managed directory that even administrators can't > easily modify (and shouldn't modify). Each user on a system has their > own set of installed store apps, even though the apps are installed > only once at the system level. > > By default, Windows creates "python.exe" and "python3.exe" aliases for > the "App Installer" PythonRedirector app. In the alias manager, these > two will be clearly listed as aliases for "App Installer". If you run > this redirector app with one or more command-line arguments, it will > print the above quoted message to the console. If the redirector app > is run without arguments, it will open the Microsoft Store to install > the latest version of the Python store app distribution. Currently > that means Python 3.10. > > In my experience, the app execution alias manager component of Windows > is unreliable. A disabled alias might still exist in > "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps", or an old alias might be left > in place when an app is installed. Once the real Python store app is > installed, go back into the alias manager and toggle the "python.exe" > and "python3.exe" aliases off and back on. If that doesn't resolve the > problem, manually delete the "python.exe" and "python3.exe" aliases > from "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps". Then toggle them off and > on again in the alias manager. Hopefully they'll be created to > correctly alias the real Python app instead of the "App Installer" > redirector. > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
