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Author Alexander.Todorov
Recipients Alexander.Todorov, dstufft, eric.araujo, eryksun
Date 2020-10-07.11:14:55
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@Eryk Sun,
you are of course correct but still don't we need to handle this in Python? 

- find_executable() will search for rst2man.py.exe which doesn't exist so no good for the user
- there is also no rst2man.exe which is probably an issue with how docutils distributes this script - e.g. it doesn't distribute the wrapper .exe file
- lastly the caller (in my case python-bugzilla) will try to execute rst2man.py which will probably fail but at least they would see another failure and are more likely to change their own code base

The trouble for me here is that find_executable() will generally not find anything that doesn't have .exe suffix on Windows. This is independent of how the resulting file would be consumed later.
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