Python 3.12.1, Windows 11: shebang line #!/usr/bin/env python3 doesn't work any more

[Mats Wichmann]

On 1/1/24 07:11, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:

> Here's how to find out what program Windows thinks it should use to run 
> a ".py" file.  In a console:
> 
> C:\Users\tom>assoc .py
> .py=Python.File
> 
> C:\Users\tom>ftype Python.file
> Python.file="C:\Windows\py.exe" "%L" %*

That's not enough. There is now (has been for a while) a layered system, 
and this gives you just one layer, there may be other associations that 
win out.

Per somebody who actually knows:

 > The only way to determine the association without reimplmenting the 
shell's search is to simply ask the shell via AssocQueryString. Possibly 
PowerShell can provide this information. – Eryk Sun