[New-bugs-announce] [issue41053] open() fails to read app exec links

[Kagami Sascha Rosylight]

New submission from Kagami Sascha Rosylight <saschanaz at outlook.com>:

After installing Python from Microsoft Store, this fails:

```
>>> open('C:\\Users\\Kagami\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\\python.exe')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'C:\\Users\\Kagami\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\\python.exe'
```

This causes virtualenv to fail on it:

```
INFO: Traceback (most recent call last):
INFO:   File "C:/Users/Kagami/.cargo/git/checkouts/mozjs-fa11ffc7d4f1cc2d/9a6d8fc/mozjs\third_party\python\virtualenv\virtualenv.py", line 2349, in <module>
INFO:     main()
INFO:   File "C:/Users/Kagami/.cargo/git/checkouts/mozjs-fa11ffc7d4f1cc2d/9a6d8fc/mozjs\third_party\python\virtualenv\virtualenv.py", line 703, in main
INFO:     create_environment(home_dir,
INFO:   File "C:/Users/Kagami/.cargo/git/checkouts/mozjs-fa11ffc7d4f1cc2d/9a6d8fc/mozjs\third_party\python\virtualenv\virtualenv.py", line 925, in create_environment
INFO:     py_executable = os.path.abspath(install_python(
INFO:   File "C:/Users/Kagami/.cargo/git/checkouts/mozjs-fa11ffc7d4f1cc2d/9a6d8fc/mozjs\third_party\python\virtualenv\virtualenv.py", line 1239, in install_python
INFO:     shutil.copyfile(executable, py_executable)
INFO:   File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.1008.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\shutil.py", line 261, in copyfile
INFO:     with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
INFO: OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'C:\\Users\\Kagami\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\\python.exe'
```

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components: Windows
messages: 371939
nosy: paul.moore, saschanaz, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: open() fails to read app exec links
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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