#17533 ./pants fails to bootstrap if PY is not set New issue created by tdyas When bootstrapping a new clone of the Pants repository at latest ,

./pants

failed with the following error message because

PY

was not set:

paradox:~/Projects/Pants/pants% ./pants
/REDACTED/pants/build-support/pants_venv: line 20: -c: command not found
Bootstrapping pants_deps with requirements:
  /REDACTED/pants/3rdparty/python/requirements.txt
/REDACTED/pants/build-support/pants_venv: line 20: -c: command not found
/REDACTED/pants/build-support/pants_venv: line 20: -c: command not found
/REDACTED/pants/build-support/pants_venv: line 33: : command not found

Failed to create venv.

Setting

PY=python3

allows bootstrap to work. (

pyenv

was already configured with CPython 3.10 as

python3

). pantsbuild/pants