Background

I’m not entirely sure why, but despite having app execution aliases (afaik) correctly configured (I’m pretty sure I’ve never touched this configuration manually on this system - this is how it looks after I installed the install manager), the Microsoft Store opens whenever I run Python. Disabling and reenabling the python/python3 execution aliases solves it. This is what I've done on a clone of the VM where I experienced this problem, to still have the ability to provide more debug information, in case there's anything specific you would want me to test.

I think it could make sense to include this bit of information in the pymanager install --configure, if it's some sort of Windows issue that can just happen to people. Judging by https://docs.python.org/dev/using/windows.html#troubleshooting, it seems like it might be.

Screenshots of App execution aliases

Despite this, running Python just opens the store (which correctly tells me it’s already installed and I did, in fact, install it through the MS Store):

Details

pymanager install --configure shows the following, despite the Settings app (shown in the above screenshots) showing a seemingly correct app execution aliases configuration:

As an additional note, this system had Python 3.11 installed on it in the past through the python.org installer, though I already uninstalled it (I think I did that before I installed the install manager, though I am not certain).

This system is a VM I use to test stuff on Windows 11 very occasionally, so it's generally pretty clean. It only had 24H2 and 25H2 updates installed recently because I actually booted the VM up for once 😄