Hello! Trying to grapple through some of my first changes on the journey of adding windows support. First target was how we find python interpreters. There seems to be two key differences with python executables in windows vs. linux/unix-like systems: 1. The binaries have the

.exe

extension tacked onto them 2. The binaries do not live in a bin folder. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex/compare/master...jacobnlsn:new/windows-support in interpreter.py changes you can see my first attempt at resolving this. I do think it may run deeper than just in this location. For example https://github.com/jacobnlsn/pex/blob/new/windows-support/pex/interpreter.py#L319 this regex to find a binary would not find a windows binary. Just looking for some general insight in this area.

looping in a few other folks with windows experience is likely to be the most fruitful path

cc @acceptable-guitar-79854

At a minimum, changing the regex to also find python.exe shouldn't be controversial

I’m curious: whats the impetus/use case for pex on windows exactly?

We are integrating with a 3rd party service that only runs on windows.