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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>2018-09-04 11:01:09 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-09-04 11:01:09 +0200
commit39487196c87e28128ea907a0d9b8a88ba53f68d5 (patch)
treebca89e0d6cc9afd2af485019feeff34c821d9caa /Lib/distutils/spawn.py
parentbpo-33613, test_semaphore_tracker_sigint: fix race condition (#7850) (diff)
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bpo-34530: Fix distutils find_executable() (GH-9049)
distutils.spawn.find_executable() now falls back on os.defpath if the PATH environment variable is not set.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/spawn.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/spawn.py b/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
index 5dd415a283d..53876880932 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ def find_executable(executable, path=None):
os.environ['PATH']. Returns the complete filename or None if not found.
"""
if path is None:
- path = os.environ['PATH']
+ path = os.environ.get('PATH', os.defpath)
paths = path.split(os.pathsep)
base, ext = os.path.splitext(executable)