Steve Dower added the comment:
The problem is that Cygwin (on which MinGW and Git Bash are based) tries to
read the contents of the executable file, rather than just executing it. The
type of link used by Windows here cannot be read as a normal file.
The provided workaround is the best we ca
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
['crash' means something like Windows 'your program has quit running' box.]
Do other Windows Store 'apps' run from bash? (Or from Command Prompt or Power
Shell?)
For an immediate solution, install Python normally, as a command-line program,
with the python.
New submission from Paul Anton Letnes :
Python 3.7 and 3.8 installed from the Windows Store do not start under git
bash. Rather, they give some variation of this error message:
bash: /c/Users/pa/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python: Permission denied
However, the permissions are rwxr-x
