[New-bugs-announce] [issue35854] EnvBuilder and venv symlinks do not work on Windows on 3.7.2

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>:

The change to pull the redirector executables as part of scripts was... perhaps too clever. There exists code out there that uses EnvBuilder to create environments _without_ copying scripts, which now results in an environment that does not include python.exe.

It also undid symlink support, as scripts are never symlinked.

I'll restore both.

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assignee: steve.dower
components: Windows
keywords: 3.7regression
messages: 334537
nosy: eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, vinay.sajip, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: EnvBuilder and venv symlinks do not work on Windows on 3.7.2
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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