[issue40687] Windows py.exe launcher interacts badly with Windows store python.exe shim

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

If someone remembers where the other "shebangs on Windows don't make sense" issue is, I think we can close this one in favour of that.

Though it's also an important point for issue40667 - if "python.exe" becomes the launcher, then this will get stuck in an infinite loop (and process memory exhaustion is the worst kind of hang on Windows).

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versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.9 -Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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