Thomas Passin added the comment:
I came across it while working on some code running in the Leo editor. I had
no idea it was not really public; I just assumed that someone knew something I
didn't. Then I discovered that it couldn't find some files I thought it
clearly should,
Thomas Passin added the comment:
That's so, and with a bit more complexity might be worth doing. At least, it
would be good to have *some* means to find more the the executable files one
would expect to find.
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Thomas Passin added the comment:
Well, yes, I realize that I could add the directories. But random users of
find_executible may not realize that.
Actually, it's probably a bit more complex than just adding the top-level
directories %ProgramFiles% and %ProgramFiles(x86)%, be
New submission from Thomas Passin :
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
