[issue18069] Subprocess picks the wrong executable on Windows

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[issue18069] Subprocess picks the wrong executable on Windows

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Who is best placed to look at this, there's nobody active on the experts list for subprocess? -- components: +Library (Lib) -Interpreter Core nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 ___ Python

[issue18069] Subprocess picks the wrong executable on Windows

berdario added the comment: I found out what's the problem, from the CreateProcess docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425.aspx """ If the file name does not contain a directory path, the system searches for the executable file in the following sequence: The directory from which

[issue18069] Subprocess picks the wrong executable on Windows

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[issue18069] Subprocess picks the wrong executable on Windows

New submission from berdario: To reproduce: I installed 2 versions of python: python2.7 and python3.3, both in C:\ I then used the distribute-setup and get-pip script on both interpreters http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py I