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by e12e 3365 days ago
Hm, interesting. I suppose this is what http://scoop.sh should be using? (The per-user setting, "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths").

Oddly it appears the python2.7 installer uses this (global setting), but not the python3.x one (It would seem that python2 could register python.exe (as it currently does), and python3 could register python3.exe (as it currently does not)).

It certainly doesn't seem to make much sense for python3 to have an option to add itself to the path environment variable, and an option to change the path length limit - but apparently not an option to use this "modern" way of registering itself? (Unless, python2 and python3 installers, when fighting it out, default to only registering python2... which makes sense, but is painful).

But based on a windows hyper-v vm with only python3 installed, it looks like python3 does not use this setting.