The current implementation nicely takes into account when the python interpreter is symlinked (or transitively within a symlinked directory). Sadly, `os.path.islink` returns `false` on Windows if instead of Windows symlinks, junctions are used. This has caused me issues after I started using `scoop` as my package manager on Windows, which creates junctions instead of symlinks.
The fix proposed in this patch is to check whether `realpath` returns a different path to `exe`, and if it does, to simply try again with that path.
The code could also be simplified since `sys.executable` is guaranteed to be absolute, and `os.readlink`, which can return a relative path, is no longer used.
Tested on Windows 11 with Python 3.11 as interpreter and Ubuntu 18.04 with Python 3.6
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D141042
break
except ValueError:
tried.append(exe)
- if os.path.islink(exe):
- exe = os.path.join(os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(exe)), os.readlink(exe))
+ # Retry if the executable is symlinked or similar.
+ # This is roughly equal to os.path.islink, except it also works for junctions on Windows.
+ if os.path.realpath(exe) != exe:
+ exe = os.path.realpath(exe)
continue
else:
print("Could not find a relative path to sys.executable under sys.prefix", file=sys.stderr)