The term 'py' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

Question

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.
At line:1 char:1

• py --version
• ~~
  • 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.

Answer 1

create the alias

doskey py = python

otherwise run

python -m venv .venv8 

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

Answer 2

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

py is just the file extension