IDG When installing Python on Windows, select the ‘Customize installation’ option during setup. IDG In the next screen, make sure you’ve checked the ‘py launcher’ option.

Note that the Python interpreter must be included in the user's PATH variable to function from the command line. How to set the interpreter in the PATH differs between Windows systems.

Python’s core development team has developed a new tool, the Python Installation Manager for Windows, to handle both of these functions: managing installed versions of Python, and choosing which ...