Eryk Sun <[email protected]> added the comment:
> If it was the tests, they seem to have been fixed elsewhere.
The cited tests haven't been changed to work with non-normalized
sys.executable, sys.prefix, etc. But it's not common to run the test suite with
a non-normalized path such as "Lib/../build/python".
> you stated above that on Windows a \\?\ path is possible but
> will not work for startup, and that you would open an issue
Sorry, I don't remember the details of the bug that I mentioned. But it became
a non-issue in 3.6+, which canonicalizes the executable path. For example:
>>> exe = r'\\?\C:\Program Files\Python36\python.exe'
>>> cmd = 'python -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)"'
>>> subprocess.call(cmd, executable=exe)
C:\Program Files\Python36\python.exe
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Compare the latter to the output of GetModuleFileNameW(NULL, ...) in this case,
which returns a \\?\ extended (verbatim) path:
>>> exe = r'\\?\C:\Program Files\Python36\python.exe'
>>> cmd = 'python -c "import _winapi; print(_winapi.GetModuleFileName(0))"'
>>> subprocess.call(cmd, executable=exe)
\\?\C:\Program Files\Python36\python.exe
0
> Do any of the non-normalized Linux (or *nix) executable paths fail for
> startup?
Not that I'm aware of. AFAIK, it's just about the particular tests failing in
this case.
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