[Python-ideas] Make py.exe default to Python 3

[Jonathan Goble]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
<chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> The reality is that MS has not updated the GUI for setting PATH since
> Windows 3.1 as far as I can tell. It sucks.

Actually, Windows 10 (or at least Windows 10 with the latest updates)
introduced a much, MUCH nicer interface for PATH editing.

Here's a screenshot: http://snag.gy/WH4Oj.jpg

With this interface, one can edit individual entries (an edit to the
Python 2.7 \Scripts folder in the system PATH is in progress in this
screenshot), use the browse button to select new folders via GUI,
tweak the order of the list, easily remove entries, and so forth. The
details of the plaintext version of PATH that one would use at the
command prompt are hidden behind the "edit text" button. I recently
performed a massive cleanup to my PATHs after discovered this new
interface, and it was really easy.