I'm having trouble finding the right installation of python, and I am on windows.
When I first installed python (IDLE) by going to https://python.org, and downloading the version, I did not know that there was a version of python in the microsoft store for windows.
For some reason, whenever I needed to run commands in the shell, say, install a python module, I needed to do this: py -m pip install module, instead of the traditional: python -m pip install module.
I don't know why python was called "py", when I ran: where python, it showed a file path that ended with "python.exe", so clearly python is being installed. And of course, IDLE and the python interpreter and all of python always worked...but I never figured out the reason python was called "py".
Now I saw that there was a version of IDLE, but for windows, in the microsoft store. So I went and installed it, but instead of giving me an IDLE app, like I expected, instead it gave me the windows terminal, with only the shell, not where I can write actual files (multiple lines), just a shell, which is useless to me.
Of course, now python -m pip install module works, but I think my system is completely messed up. Because when I tried: python -m pip show keyboard (keyboard is a module that I already have installed), I got this error warning that the package was not found. But when I tried: py -m pip show keyboard, it worked.
My assumption is that I now have two versions of python, the regular IDLE one that I installed (that is named py), and the new one that I just installed recently, which is not what was expected. I'll take this moment to note that when I installed the new one, my old one was still installed. Is it possible that the old one interfered with the new one being installed (so that I can write multiple lines and have the usual IDLE format)?
I don't just want a shell, I want the regular IDLE, where I can write multiple lines of code and run it, and I also want to know why python was originally named py at the start?
UPDATE:
Resolved, looks like I can just open IDLE from the terminal, by typing in idle, it's that simple. I would have preferred a faster method to open the app, but it's no big issue.