Guido van Rossum added the comment:
I guess this explains it:
>>> for p in os.getenv("PATH").split(os.pathsep): print(p)
...
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Fil
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Oops, I think I understand why. The py launcher actually does a search for an
interpreter named "python" and that turns out to be python 3.10.
Now my question becomes why py chooses a different default than that.
I don't have a py.ini file in either of th
New submission from Guido van Rossum :
I have 3.9 and 3.10 installed on my Windows box.
The py launcher runs Python 3.10 when invoked on a script starting with a
shebang line
#!/usr/bin/env python
even though the default without a script is 3.9, as shown here:
PS C:\Users\gvanrossum\peps> p
