

One option is simply to add a copy of python.exe named python3.exe in the base install directory. This seems like it should be an issue long since reported, but I cannot find it by searching. And it seems very easy to fix in the default install. And this comes up numerous times each semester despite posting FAQ's and warnings related to this issue. This is obviously only an issue for novice users. So the unsuspecting user is greeted with the option to install Python 3 from the Windows Store, which could break an existing installation and certainly will not do what they intended. Worse, there is a python3.exe in a default AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps directory which is a stub to open the Windows Store to download Python 3. will fail because all are written for *nix platforms that standardize on python3 as the name of the executable. Thus, a user following almost any online tutorial, copy/pasting installation scripts, etc. However, there is no python3.exe, python3.cmd or similar.

You are ready to install python version 3 on your macOS.On Windows, a Python 3 install directory contains python.exe. After you see a message called “Installation Successful”. This will install the Homebrew package Manager on your OS.


