[issue28552] Distutils fail if sys.executable is None

[Donald Stufft]

Donald Stufft added the comment:

We re-execute Python to run setup.py. Even from wheels we do it to compile pyc files. 

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> On Oct 29, 2016, at 2:38 PM, R. David Murray <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> R. David Murray added the comment:
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> Yes, you are right; I was thinking that distutils and/or pip re-executed python for certain tasks, but upon reflection I don't think they do.
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