New submission from Thomas Passin <p...@tompassin.net>:
On Windows, find_executable() in distutils.spawn may fail to find executables
that it ought to. This is because the PATH environmental variable no longer
includes %ProgramFiles% and %ProgramFiles(x86)%. At least, that is the case on
my brand new Windows 10 Computer running Windows 10 Pro. In the past, I'm
fairly sure these directories were always included on the PATH.
Some programs add their install directory to the Windows PATH, but many don't.
For example, on my new computer, Pandoc added itself to the PATH but EditPlus
and Notepad++ did not. So
>>> find_executable('pandoc')
'C:\\Program Files\\Pandoc\\pandoc.exe'
but
>>> find_executable('editplus') # no result
>>> find_executable('notepad++') # no result
I suggest that in Windows, find_executable() should check for and add the
%ProgramFiles% and %ProgramFiles(x86)% directories to the system PATH before
executing its search.
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components: Distutils
messages: 359602
nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, tbpassin
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: find_executable() Fails To Find Many Executables on Windows
versions: Python 3.8
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<https://bugs.python.org/issue39260>
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