https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bec166a05302c972d7fe731e60ba3eb9da4d64c3
commit: bec166a05302c972d7fe731e60ba3eb9da4d64c3
branch: 3.15
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: zooba <[email protected]>
date: 2026-07-14T21:41:48Z
summary:

[3.15] gh-148488: Clarify the company/tag separator in the py -V docs 
(GH-153427) (GH-153721)

gh-148488: Clarify the company/tag separator in the py -V docs (GH-153427)
(cherry picked from commit 54976e1482578d742d4e611741a7995650e8ae6b)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/using/windows.rst

diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index f75cf5b66c4388c..e48de587598e5fe 100644
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ omitted in cases where the tag refers to an official 
release and starts with
    $> py -V:3-arm64 ...
 
 Runtimes from other distributors may require the *company* to be included as
-well. This should be separated from the tag by a slash, and may be a prefix.
+well.
+It should be separated from the tag by a slash (either ``/`` or ``\``),
+and may be shortened to any prefix of its full value.
 Specifying the company is optional when it is ``PythonCore``, and specifying 
the
 tag is optional (but not the slash) when you want the latest release from a
 specific company.

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