Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> We'd need Mark to weigh in (or possibly track down and ask a colleague), but 
> I expect the assumption is that subprocess.Popen("python") searches PATH 
> first.

I'm sure it was, TBH. The executable directory side of things is really just on 
digging a bit deeper - "well, Windows actually uses the executable directory, 
but that's not relevant because I ran the venv Python". That's when the 
mistaken assumption happens.

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