[New-bugs-announce] [issue37452] Microsoft store package has an invalid ExecutablePath registry entry

[Fredrik Mellbin]

New submission from Fredrik Mellbin <fredrik.mellbin at gmail.com>:

The Microsoft store release doesn't seem to populate the the "ExecutablePath" registry entry properly. Instead it has a the path to something that isn't an executable which can be seen in the attached screenshot.

The expected behavior would be to have it point to "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Python37.exe" (or something else that's reasonable) since PEP514 requires it to be an actual executable.

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components: Windows
files: vs_installershell_2019-06-27_23-32-05.png
messages: 346931
nosy: Fredrik Mellbin, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Microsoft store package has an invalid ExecutablePath registry entry
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file48447/vs_installershell_2019-06-27_23-32-05.png

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