Steve Dower added the comment:
Yep, that seems like the reason. All of that redirection is handled by the OS
and I don't think we'd want to override it.
However, I suspect we're close to having another discussion about making the 64
bit download the default. There are fewer actual 32-bit OS
Zachary Ware added the comment:
That almost certainly means you were installing the 32-bit version of Python.
32-bit processes see `C:\Program Files (x86)\` as `C:\Program Files\`; I no
longer remember whether they can actually see the real `C:\Program Files\` at
all.
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resolution
New submission from Young Wong :
I'm on Windows 10 and downloaded the Python 3.8 installation package. I
explicitly selected `C:\Program Files\Python38` as my installation path during
in the menu, but it installs it in `C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38` at the
end. My `C:\Program Files` has Py
