On 2022-02-06, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 13:44:07 +0530, "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> declaimed the following: > >> I cannot open python after downloading it keeps going to modify/uninstall >> ?? please help > > Stop clicking on the INSTALLER. What you downloaded is just the program > that installs and configures Python on your system. Stuff it away someplace > safe should you need to modify the current installation, but otherwise just > forget that it exists.
This is _still_ a problem after all these years and countless identical complaints? How difficult would it be to add a few lines of text to the installer welcome screen explaining that you've just started the Python INSTALLER, and if you've already done the installation and want to "run Python" try <whatever>? -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
