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I've reinstalled and installed sublime text and python over and over again in Windows. And for some reason python works but not python3.

in CMD prompt window if I type python it opens python 3.8.1 but if I type python3 it says it is not recognized.

so is python actually python3? Or am I not doing something correctly?

Because when I run Sublime Text with Build -> Python3

I get this error:

[WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
[cmd: ['python3', '-u', 'C:\\Users\\DELL-T3500\\Desktop\\python_work\\apostrophe.py']]
[dir: C:\Users\DELL-T3500\Desktop\python_work]
[path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Users\DELL-T3500\AppData\Local\Smartbar\Application\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\;C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\syswow64;C:\project2\casperjs\bin;C:\project2\phantomjs\bin;C:\Users\DELL-T3500\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Scripts\;C:\Users\DELL-T3500\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\;C:\Users\DELL-T3500\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts\;C:\Users\DELL-T3500\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\]
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In Windows it's only python,do test with python and pip from cmd as in this tutorial
python3 is a command Linux distros use.