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Author steve.dower
Recipients Packhash, eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2020-07-23.08:28:12
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> it fails with this error means you're running a virtual-environment launcher instead of a base Python executable.

Exactly. It sounds like you probably searched for pythonw.exe and found the one in Lib/venv/scripts/nt instead of the actual one.

The default association should go to pyw.exe, which is likely in your C:\Windows directory.
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