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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by vel0city on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:24PM (#27296867)
The Microsoft Store version is managed by the PSF and is a legitimate method of getting it. It went to that because you didn't choose the option to add python to the PATH, so the console didn't have a python executable to run.
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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by bogwog on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @07:42PM (#27297560)
I did choose to add it to the PATH, and even double checked the variable manually.

The only way to get it to use my installed version was to disable that alias feature in the Windows 10 settings app.

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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by WorldMaker on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:27PM (#27304921)
That alias really is supposed to go away when you install Python from any install path (Store or classic EXE installer), but it does have more bugs with the EXE installer. (The alias feature is used more generally in Store installs, so it's more of a direct alias swap when installed that way.)
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