From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:14:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Remove 'unstable' warning for Windows Store package in docs (GH-15334) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0b4~86 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9aa0ab1a97a9287420bef99803872879eaa45f8f;p=python Remove 'unstable' warning for Windows Store package in docs (GH-15334) (cherry picked from commit cf9360e524acafdce99a8a1e48947fd7da06f3d4) Co-authored-by: Steve Dower --- diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst index 462e4c2b6c..50eb9d3145 100644 --- a/Doc/using/windows.rst +++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst @@ -293,12 +293,6 @@ The Microsoft Store package .. versionadded:: 3.7.2 -.. note:: - The Microsoft Store package is currently considered unstable while its - interactions with other tools and other copies of Python are evaluated. - While Python itself is stable, this installation method may change its - behavior and capabilities during Python 3.7 releases. - The Microsoft Store package is an easily installable Python interpreter that is intended mainly for interactive use, for example, by students. @@ -318,7 +312,10 @@ session by typing ``python``. Further, pip and IDLE may be used by typing All three commands are also available with version number suffixes, for example, as ``python3.exe`` and ``python3.x.exe`` as well as ``python.exe`` (where ``3.x`` is the specific version you want to launch, -such as |version|). +such as |version|). Open "Manage App Execution Aliases" through Start to +select which version of Python is associated with each command. It is +recommended to make sure that ``pip`` and ``idle`` are consistent with +whichever version of ``python`` is selected. Virtual environments can be created with ``python -m venv`` and activated and used as normal.