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pipenv run <executable> doesn't find executable that are in my PATH

See original GitHub issue

I upgraded pipenv to 2018.05.18 today from an older build (might have been 10.1.0) on my windows 10 machine, and now I’m having trouble using pipenv run to invoke executables I have in my PATH. It seems pipenv run doesn’t resolve anything in my PATH.

For example, I have my IDE atom in my path and invoke it as pipenv run atom which worked fine before I updated pipenv on my system.

After the update, I now get this error:

$ pipenv run atom
The system cannot find the path specified.

(I also see the same behavior trying to pipenv run <alias> on any alias I have defined in my .bashrc.)

$ python -m pipenv.help output

Pipenv version: '2018.05.18'

Pipenv location: 'C:\\Users\\user01\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36\\lib\\site-packages\\pipenv'

Python location: 'C:\\Users\\user01\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36\\python.exe'

Other Python installations in PATH:

3.6: C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\python.exe
3.6.5: C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\python.exe
3.6.5: C:\Windows\py.exe

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.6.5',
 'os_name': 'nt',
 'platform_machine': 'AMD64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '10',
 'platform_system': 'Windows',
 'platform_version': '10.0.10586',
 'python_full_version': '3.6.5',
 'python_version': '3.6',
 'sys_platform': 'win32'}

System environment variables:

ACLOCAL_PATH
ALLUSERSPROFILE
ANSICON
ANSICON_DEF
APPDATA
COMMONPROGRAMFILES
COMPUTERNAME
COMSPEC
CONFIG_SITE
C_EM64T_REDIST11
COMMONPROGRAMFILES(X86)
COMMONPROGRAMW6432
CONEMUANSI
CONEMUANSILOG
CONEMUARGS2
CONEMUARGS
CONEMUBACKHWND
CONEMUBASEDIR
CONEMUBUILD
CONEMUCONFIG
CONEMUDIR
CONEMUDRAWHWND
CONEMUDRIVE
CONEMUHWND
CONEMUHOOKS
CONEMUPID
CONEMUPALETTE
CONEMUSERVERPID
CONEMUTASK
CONEMUWORKDIR
CONEMUWORKDRIVE
DISPLAY
EXEPATH
FSHARPINSTALLDIR
HOME
HOMEDRIVE
HOMEPATH
HOSTNAME
INFOPATH
LANG
LOCALAPPDATA
LOGONSERVER
MANPATH
MINGW_CHOST
MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX
MINGW_PREFIX
MSYSTEM
MSYSTEM_CARCH
MSYSTEM_CHOST
MSYSTEM_PREFIX
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
OLDPWD
ORIGINAL_PATH
ORIGINAL_TEMP
ORIGINAL_TMP
OS
ONEDRIVE
PATH
PATHEXT
PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT
PKG_CONFIG_PATH
PLINK_PROTOCOL
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER
PROCESSOR_LEVEL
PROCESSOR_REVISION
PROGRAMFILES
PS1
PSMODULEPATH
PUBLIC
PWD
PROGRAMDATA
PROGRAMFILES(X86)
PROGRAMW6432
RUBYOPT
SESSIONNAME
SHELL
SHLVL
SNOW_INVENTORY_HOME
SSH_AGENT_PID
SSH_ASKPASS
SSH_AUTH_SOCK
SSL_CERT_FILE
SYSTEMDRIVE
SYSTEMROOT
TEMP
TERM
TMP
TMPDIR
UATDATA
USERDNSDOMAIN
USERDOMAIN
USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE
USERNAME
USERPROFILE
VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH
VS140COMNTOOLS
WINDIR
_
USERDEV
USERZEN
SNOW_AGENT
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
PIP_PYTHON_PATH

Pipenv–specific environment variables:

PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT: 1

Debug–specific environment variables:

PATH: C:\Users\user01\bin;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\local\bin;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu\Scripts;C:\Program Files\ConEmu;C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Files\cpp\bin\Intel64;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\SASHome\x86\Secure\ccme4;C:\Program Files\SASHome\Secure\ccme4;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP;C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\bin;C:\Apache24\bin;C:\php56;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\Scripts;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\130\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DTS\Binn;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36;C:\Ruby22\bin;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Users\user01\bin\zatit;C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.6\bin;C:\Users\user01\bin;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin\vendor_perl;C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin\core_perl
SHELL: C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
PWD: C:/dev/path_resolve_pipenv2018.05.18

Contents of Pipfile (‘C:\dev\path_resolve_pipenv2018.05.18\Pipfile’):

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

[packages]

[dev-packages]

[requires]
python_version = "3.6"

Contents of Pipfile.lock (‘C:\dev\path_resolve_pipenv2018.05.18\Pipfile.lock’):

{
    "_meta": {
        "hash": {
            "sha256": "415dfdcb118dd9bdfef17671cb7dcd78dbd69b6ae7d4f39e8b44e71d60ca72e7"
        },
        "pipfile-spec": 6,
        "requires": {
            "python_version": "3.6"
        },
        "sources": [
            {
                "name": "pypi",
                "url": "https://pypi.org/simple",
                "verify_ssl": true
            }
        ]
    },
    "default": {},
    "develop": {}
}

Expected result

When <executable> is in my PATH, running pipenv run <executable> would resolve and run <executable> within the virtual environment.

Actual result

When <executable> is in my PATH, running pipenv run <executable> yields The system cannot find the path specified.

Steps to replicate

I’m on windows 10. I guess this could be OS-related.

Open shell. I have replicated this on Git bash (for windows) and regular PowerShell.
Create an empty directory and cd into.
$ pipenv install --three
Have a PATH environment variable that inludes an exectuable, e.g. C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\atom\bin (that contains an executable, here: atom)
Verify you can trigger executable from shell ($ atom)
Now try $ pipenv run atom
Get error message The system cannot find the path specified.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

uranusjrcommented, May 31, 2018

Yup that’s the problem I was talking about. Pipenv currently doesn’t check for all possible executable extensions, only a few selected ones. We should instead check for entries in PATHEXT. I’ll put up a fix in a few days.

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techalchemycommented, May 31, 2018

We were doing this for windows, btw.

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