Thanks for the advice. I found a stack overflow post that suggested just removing manually and cleaning out the registry too. I think I have it under control but I haven't gotten around to reinstalling it yet.
On Sun, 2 May 2021, 10:05 Mats Wichmann, <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: > On 4/29/21 6:59 PM, Sian Doherty wrote: > > I’m trying to uninstall Python 3.8.5 on Windows 10 Pro 20H2 as I had > multiple environments and as a result corrupted them. > > > > When I uninstall from control panel, it takes less than a second and > says it uninstalled successfully but I can still access python through the > command prompt by typing python. > > > > Is there a different way to uninstall that isn’t through the control > panel? I would have thought I would do that and then clean out the registry > separately and the %localappdata%\pip folder. > > > > Any thoughts? > > There are some uninstall tools, of varying quality. Some depend on you > having been running them while the install happened, which is probably > not the case for you. Once you've messed up Windows' idea of the install > subsystem, it's not that easy to recover. Though some may disagree, > that's not really Python's fault, the install system seems pretty > fragile. Sometimes if the the files needed to process the uninstall > have been removed but the uninstall itself didn't finish you're in > trouble - which isn't really the fault of the install system, but then > you ask how that scenario arose? anyway... > > You could look for this tool: > MicrosoftProgram_Install_and_Uninstall.meta.diagcab - an Internet search > should find it. it usually does a fairly good job of cleaning up messes > (well - it's worked well for me in a few dire situations). > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list