Cool. I am pleasantly surprised shebang works properly on windows, does meson add the proper python to the PATH?

does meson add the proper python to the PATH?

Meson does do something to make sure that this works I believe, but don't ask me to explain. I just know how to fix it because I've dealt with this several times before - but forgot the gory details.

thanks @rgommers

Meson does do something to make sure that this works I believe, but don't ask me to explain. I just know how to fix it because I've dealt with this several times before - but forgot the gory details.

It parses scripts and checks for a shebang, for portability reasons. Primarily to ensure things work as expected on Windows. When it spots the python3 shebang it offers the same guarantees that find_program('python3') does, i.e. it will always find some python3, and if need be it will use the sys.executable of meson itself.

When it spots the python3 shebang ...

nice, thanks