Pipenv uses arbitrary python installation on windows

Similar to #4952, but happens on a clean pyenv install and while creating an environment. I’m using Python 3.10.4 installed with scoop. This happens both in cmd and in a bash shell.

Issue description

I installed pipenv using the python installation in my path, but when I run pipenv --support it only manages to find my python 2.7 installation, and an python 3.6.5 installation that came with an old julia installation, neither of which are in path. Attempting to create a new pipenv automatically uses the 3.6.5 installation.

Expected result

Pipenv uses the first python found in path

Actual result

Pipenv uses an arbitrary python installation I have no idea how it finds.

Steps to replicate

1. Create a directory named “test” on the C drive
2. Run python -m pip uninstall pipenv then python -m pip install pipenv
3. Run pipenv --support

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C:\test>where python
C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\python\current\python.exe

$ pipenv --support

Pipenv version: '2022.7.24'

Pipenv location: 'C:\\Users\\ITR\\scoop\\apps\\python\\current\\lib\\site-packages\\pipenv'

Python location: 'C:\\Users\\ITR\\scoop\\apps\\python\\current\\python.exe'

Python installations found:

• 3.6.5: C:\Users\ITR\.julia\conda\3\python.exe
• 2.7.18: C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\python27\current\python.exe

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.10.4',
 'os_name': 'nt',
 'platform_machine': 'AMD64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '10',
 'platform_system': 'Windows',
 'platform_version': '10.0.19044',
 'python_full_version': '3.10.4',
 'python_version': '3.10',
 'sys_platform': 'win32'}

System environment variables:

• ALLUSERSPROFILE
• ANDROID_HOME
• APPDATA
• BEEFPATH
• BESIEGE_GAME_ASSEMBLIES
• BESIEGE_UNITY_ASSEMBLIES
• CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW
• CGO_CXXFLAGS_ALLOW
• CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW
• CHOCOLATEYINSTALL
• CHOCOLATEYLASTPATHUPDATE
• CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
• CMDER_ROOT
• COMMONPROGRAMFILES
• COMMONPROGRAMFILES(X86)
• COMMONPROGRAMW6432
• COMPUTERNAME
• COMSPEC
• CONEMUDIR
• CPATH
• CUDA_PATH
• CUDA_PATH_V10_1
• CUDA_PATH_V10_2
• DRIVERDATA
• FORKGITINSTANCE
• GEM_HOME
• GEM_PATH
• GIT_INSTALL_ROOT
• GIT_SSH
• GOPATH
• GOROOT
• GTK_BASEPATH
• HOMEDRIVE
• HOMEPATH
• JAVA_HOME
• LOCALAPPDATA
• LOGONSERVER
• NGINX_HOME
• NODE_PATH
• NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
• NVCUDASAMPLES10_1_ROOT
• NVCUDASAMPLES_ROOT
• NVM_HOME
• NVM_SYMLINK
• NVTOOLSEXT_PATH
• ONEDRIVE
• OS
• PATH
• PATHEXT
• PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR
• PKG_CONFIG
• PKG_CONFIG_PATH
• PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
• PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER
• PROCESSOR_LEVEL
• PROCESSOR_REVISION
• PROGRAMDATA
• PROGRAMFILES
• PROGRAMFILES(X86)
• PROGRAMW6432
• PROGUARD_HOME
• PROMPT
• PSMODULEPATH
• PUBLIC
• PYENV
• PYENV_HOME
• PYENV_ROOT
• SCROLLVIEW_PATH
• SESSIONNAME
• STEAMROOT
• SYSTEMDRIVE
• SYSTEMROOT
• TEMP
• TESSDATA_PREFIX
• TMP
• U2NETHS_PATH
• U2NETP_PATH
• U2NET_PATH
• USERDOMAIN
• USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE
• USERNAME
• USERPROFILE
• VS140COMNTOOLS
• WINDIR
• PIP_SHIMS_BASE_MODULE
• PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK
• PIP_PYTHON_PATH
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
• PYTHONFINDER_IGNORE_UNSUPPORTED

PipenvΓÇôspecific environment variables:

DebugΓÇôspecific environment variables:

• PATH: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;D:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-8.0.322.6-hotspot\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.2\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.2\libnvvp;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.1\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.1\libnvvp;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;D:\Go\GoPath\bin;D:\misc;D:\OpenFaceSwap;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\GtkSharp\2.12\bin;D:\Program Files\Microsoft Network Monitor 3\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;D:\Go\bin;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Compute 2019.5.0\;C:\cuDNN\bin;D:\Program Files\javafx-sdk-14.0.1\bin;D:\Program Files\javafx-sdk-14.0.1\lib;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;D:\misc\swigwin-3.0.12;D:\Program Files\Calibre2\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\python\current\Scripts;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\python\current;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\nodejs\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\nodejs\current;C:\Users\ITR\.nimble\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\gpg\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\adopt8-hotspot\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\perl\current\perl\site\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\perl\current\perl\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\perl\current\c\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\flutter\current\bin\cache\dart-sdk\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\ruby\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\ruby\current\gems\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\oraclejdk\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\gcc\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\yarn\current\Yarn\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\yarn\current\global\node_modules\.bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\python27\current\scripts;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\flutter\current\bin\cache\dart-sdk;C:\Python64\Scripts\;C:\Python64\;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\nvm\current\nodejs\nodejs;C:\Users\ITR\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts\;C:\Users\ITR\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\;C:\Users\ITR\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Launcher\;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\android-sdk\current\tools\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\nmap\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\openjdk\current\bin;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\shims;C:\Users\ITR\scoop\apps\sdl2-msvc-x64\current\lib;D:\Program Files\RingLang\ring\bin;C:\Users\ITR\go\bin;D:\Program Files\Beef Lang\bin;C:\Users\ITR\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;D:\Program Files (x86)\Nmap;C:\Users\ITR\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\ITR\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\ITR\.dotnet\tools;D:\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Hyper\resources\bin;C:\Users\ITR\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\ITR\.pyenv\pyenv-win\\bin;C:\Users\ITR\.pyenv\pyenv-win\\shims;C:\Users\ITR\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\Scripts;

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[ITR13]

There’s still the issue of pipenv --support only listing 2 python installations, but for installation it now works, yes. It’s possible it stored which python executable I used after I forced it to use python 3.8 (I haven’t uninstalled and reinstalled since it’s working). Same behaviour on latest pipenv version.

I can close the issue since --support not listing the correct python installations is just a minor issue, unless you want me to keep it open for it.

[matteius]

The newest version of pipenv is searching for python3 before python, this also helps in some cases. @ITR13 I noticed in your last reply that you said the issue kind of went away for you? Is there something actionable remaining that we should do related to this ticket?