So I disabled the manage app execution for python 3.10, created the py.ini file and executed setx.exe PY_PYTHON 3.8, setx.exe PY_PYTHON3 3.8. After that i uninstalled 3.8 and reinstalled and now the version is showing correctly.
Thanks everyone for the help. Thanks Sumeet On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 20:40, Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/1/23, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > > > > I find user environment on windows to be less flexible to work with then > > adding a py.ini. On my Windows 11 I added > > %userprofile%\AppData\Local\py.ini. > > To make python 3.8 the default that py.exe uses put this in py.ini: > > > > [defaults] > > python=3.8-64 > > python3=3.8-64 > > Using "py.ini" has the advantage that launcher always reads the file. > The value of the environment variables, on the other hand, may be > stale. If you keep a lot of shells running, it would be tedious to > have to manually update the PY_PYTHON* variables in each shell. That > said, it should be rare that one needs to change the persisted default > versions. For temporary changes, the PY_PYTHON* environment variables > are more flexible and take precedence over "py.ini". > > If one doesn't use "py.ini" to set the defaults, it's easy to modify > the persisted user environment using "setx.exe"[^1]. For example: > > setx.exe PY_PYTHON 3.8 > setx.exe PY_PYTHON3 3.8 > > setx.exe broadcasts a WM_SETTINGCHANGE "Environment" window message, > which causes Explorer to update its environment. Thus any program run > from Explorer will see the new values. A program launched in a new tab > in Windows Terminal also gets a fresh environment. However, existing > CLI shells (CMD, PowerShell, bash), and programs started by them, will > still have the old environment values. The latter is where using > "py.ini" to set the defaults has the advantage. > > --- > > [^1]: Note that "setx.exe" should never be used to set the persisted > user or machine "Path" value to the current %PATH%. When loading the > environment, the user "Path" gets appended to the machine "Path". > Setting the entire expanded and concatenated value to one or the other > leads to a bloated, redundant PATH value, and it also loses the > flexible configuration based on REG_EXPAND_SZ values. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list