New submission from Dawid Gosławski <alku...@gmail.com>:
Shutil's which implementation does not work correctly when someone set's empty
item in `PATHEXT` environment variable. Example:
set PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC;.RB;.RBW;
I'm not 100% sure how I got this in my PATHEXT config, I wasn't changing that
so maybe some bugged uninstaller not removed it's extension correctly.
This makes things confusing as Windows will find correctly binary, but Python
will return nothing, due to this part:
```
if any(cmd.lower().endswith(ext.lower()) for ext in pathext):
files = [cmd]
```
pathext is initialized as `pathext = os.environ.get("PATHEXT",
"").split(os.pathsep)`, which ends producing '' as last element
Because any string ends with empty string (''), files list will have plain
version added like `git`, which will then fail executable check.
Workaround is to use full name `git.exe`
Filtering out empty strings would fix that.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 368620
nosy: alkuzad
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: `Shutil.which` incosistent with windows's `where`
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