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I have been trying to create a virtual environment for django project but I have been meeting the error below.

py : The term 'py' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
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  • py --version
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    • CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (py:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Attached is also the graphic of the error as it appears on my system.

I have added python to path in environmental variables yet it's not working.

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  • shouldn't you be calling python instead of py? Commented Mar 21, 2023 at 10:55
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    Use python or python3 instead of py. Commented Mar 21, 2023 at 10:59
  • Ok, I'll try the python command. Thank you @SembeiNorimaki Commented Mar 22, 2023 at 7:42

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Unless you have aliased the command to be py, the command is python or python3.

py is just the file extension

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create the alias

doskey py = python

otherwise run

python -m venv .venv8

instead of py -3 -m venv .venv to create your environment

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