Different versions of Python3 and Python

[Led_Zeppelin]

I am confused about something that is very simple(or should be). You can see from the code below that:

Output:
(base-dup) C:\Users\james\Downloads>python -V
Python 3.8.10

(base-dup) C:\Users\james\Downloads>python3 -V
Python 3.9.5

I do not have python 2 on my system, but I do have python 3. I thought I had one version and python -V and python3 -V would give the same response. In the case above they do not. I have python 3.95 and 3.8.10. I am not sure how this happened, but I would feel a lot better, if they were the same version. That is how I set up the system originally.

What happened and how o fix?

Respectfully,

LZ