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Shutil.which incosistent with windows's where #84772

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alkuzad mannequin opened this issue May 11, 2020 · 9 comments
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Shutil.which incosistent with windows's where #84772

alkuzad mannequin opened this issue May 11, 2020 · 9 comments
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3.8 only security fixes 3.9 only security fixes 3.10 only security fixes easy OS-windows stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir

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alkuzad mannequin commented May 11, 2020

BPO 40592
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  • bpo-40592: shutil.which will not return None anymore if ; is the last char in PATHEXT #20088
  • [3.9] bpo-40592: shutil.which will not return None anymore if ; is the last char in PATHEXT (GH-20088) #22912
  • [3.8] bpo-40592: shutil.which will not return None anymore if ; is the last char in PATHEXT (GH-20088) #22913
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closed_at = <Date 2020-10-23.10:09:45.922>
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labels = ['easy', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', 'library', 'OS-windows']
title = "`Shutil.which` incosistent with windows's `where`"
updated_at = <Date 2020-10-23.21:38:08.966>
user = 'https://github.com/alkuzad'

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closed_date = <Date 2020-10-23.10:09:45.922>
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components = ['Library (Lib)', 'Windows']
creation = <Date 2020-05-11.08:50:15.691>
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    alkuzad mannequin commented May 11, 2020

    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.

    @alkuzad alkuzad mannequin added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir labels May 11, 2020
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    zooba commented May 12, 2020

    Sounds like a good opportunity for someone to make their first contribution.

    Post a message if you'd like to work on this (and a test), and we can help get through the PR process.

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    peanutlord mannequin commented May 14, 2020

    @steve.dower I would really love to work on this and make my first contribution. Never did one, so I would some help doing this one :)

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    peanutlord mannequin commented Oct 21, 2020

    @steve.dower Added the changes in the PR - could you please re-check? Thank you!

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    peanutlord mannequin commented Oct 22, 2020

    @steve.dower Your advice did it, is fixed and green! :) Thank you again

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    zooba commented Oct 23, 2020

    New changeset da6f098 by Christopher Marchfelder in branch 'master':
    bpo-40592: shutil.which will not return None anymore if ; is the last char in PATHEXT (GH-20088)
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    zooba commented Oct 23, 2020

    Thanks for the contribution! Looking forward to your next one :)

    @zooba zooba added 3.8 only security fixes 3.9 only security fixes 3.10 only security fixes labels Oct 23, 2020
    @zooba zooba closed this as completed Oct 23, 2020
    @zooba zooba added 3.8 only security fixes 3.9 only security fixes 3.10 only security fixes labels Oct 23, 2020
    @zooba zooba closed this as completed Oct 23, 2020
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    New changeset 8b4842b by Miss Skeleton (bot) in branch '3.8':
    [3.8] bpo-40592: shutil.which will not return None anymore if ; is the last char in PATHEXT (GH-20088) (GH-22913)
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    New changeset c437fe3 by Miss Skeleton (bot) in branch '3.9':
    [3.9] bpo-40592: shutil.which will not return None anymore if ; is the last char in PATHEXT (GH-20088) (GH-22912)
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