[Python-checkins] Remove 'unstable' warning for Windows Store package in docs (GH-15334)

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Mon Aug 19 13:14:35 EDT 2019


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9aa0ab1a97a9287420bef99803872879eaa45f8f
commit: 9aa0ab1a97a9287420bef99803872879eaa45f8f
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-08-19T10:14:31-07:00
summary:

Remove 'unstable' warning for Windows Store package in docs (GH-15334)

(cherry picked from commit cf9360e524acafdce99a8a1e48947fd7da06f3d4)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>

files:
M Doc/using/windows.rst

diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index 462e4c2b6c63..50eb9d3145d2 100644
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -293,12 +293,6 @@ The Microsoft Store package
 
 .. versionadded:: 3.7.2
 
-.. note::
-   The Microsoft Store package is currently considered unstable while its
-   interactions with other tools and other copies of Python are evaluated.
-   While Python itself is stable, this installation method may change its
-   behavior and capabilities during Python 3.7 releases.
-
 The Microsoft Store package is an easily installable Python interpreter that
 is intended mainly for interactive use, for example, by students.
 
@@ -318,7 +312,10 @@ session by typing ``python``. Further, pip and IDLE may be used by typing
 All three commands are also available with version number suffixes, for
 example, as ``python3.exe`` and ``python3.x.exe`` as well as
 ``python.exe`` (where ``3.x`` is the specific version you want to launch,
-such as |version|).
+such as |version|). Open "Manage App Execution Aliases" through Start to
+select which version of Python is associated with each command. It is
+recommended to make sure that ``pip`` and ``idle`` are consistent with
+whichever version of ``python`` is selected.
 
 Virtual environments can be created with ``python -m venv`` and activated
 and used as normal.



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