Linux: shutil.which fails to find executable in current working directory/cwd when PATH unset (subprocess works)
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Bug description:
On Linux, executables from the cwd are used when PATH is unset:
$ PATH= python -V
Python 3.13.7
subprocess.run also works in this case:
$ PATH= python -q
>>> from subprocess import run
... run(['python', '-V'])
...
Python 3.13.7
CompletedProcess(args=['python', '-V'], returncode=0)
>>>
But shutil.which returns None:
>>> from shutil import which
>>> which('python')
>>>
This is because when PATH is empty(""), the executable ("python") is passed to the kernel's execve directly, without resolving. execve then resolves the file relative to the cwd, I believe it's the case in both Linux and FreeBSD.
POSIX 2024 says this about the PATH environment variable:
If PATH is unset or is set to null, or if a path prefix in PATH contains a character ('%'), the path search is implementation-defined.
EDIT: PATH is empty, not unset
CPython versions tested on:
3.13
Operating systems tested on:
Linux
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调研方向
从 shutil.which 入口点开始,重现设置 PATH= 时的 Linux 情况,并将其与 subprocess.run(['python', '-V']) 进行比较。确定空 PATH 的预期行为,然后验证 shutil.which 是否遵循该行为,并使用回归测试覆盖这一情况。
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