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On 4/29/2016 9:48 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:52 am, Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>>> (There has never been a Python 27. I assume Python 2.7 is what you
>>> meant.)
>>
>> I believe that Python X.Y shows up as "PythonXY" under Windows.

As a directory name that also omits the space, yes. Start Menu entries 
have both the space and and the '.'.

> Then that's a bug which should be fixed, IMO. An MS Windows user (i.e.,
> not me) would be well placed to describe the behaviour in a bug report.

I disagree.  .0, .1, etc, would look like extensions, but are not.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy