From bec166a05302c972d7fe731e60ba3eb9da4d64c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:41:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [3.15] gh-148488: Clarify the company/tag separator in the py -V docs (GH-153427) (GH-153721) gh-148488: Clarify the company/tag separator in the py -V docs (GH-153427) (cherry picked from commit 54976e1482578d742d4e611741a7995650e8ae6b) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka --- Doc/using/windows.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst index f75cf5b66c43..e48de587598e 100644 --- a/Doc/using/windows.rst +++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst @@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ omitted in cases where the tag refers to an official release and starts with $> py -V:3-arm64 ... Runtimes from other distributors may require the *company* to be included as -well. This should be separated from the tag by a slash, and may be a prefix. +well. +It should be separated from the tag by a slash (either ``/`` or ``\``), +and may be shortened to any prefix of its full value. Specifying the company is optional when it is ``PythonCore``, and specifying the tag is optional (but not the slash) when you want the latest release from a specific company. -- 2.47.3