Skip to content

Python3 installer is broken on Windows #99923

Closed as not planned
Closed as not planned
@juj

Description

@juj

I was unable to find the appropriate GitHub repository for the Windows installer, so reporting this here to get visibility somewhere at least.

Steps To Reproduce:

  1. Visit python.org to download Python 3.11 for Windows:

image

  1. Launch the installer, choose e.g. the following options (shouldn't matter much, except note to add Python to PATH):

image

image

image

  1. After installation finishes, open a new command prompt, and type python3:

image

and press enter.

Observed: The Microsoft Store page pops up, asking the user to install Python 3.10:

image

Expected: The just installed python 3.11 interpreter should launch.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions