[BUG] Change python3 to python

[mxschmitt]

If you install Python on a Windows machine, it usually is only available as python and not as python3. This will then e.g. break the following:

reclient-configs/configure_reclient.py

Line 144 in fe37dd8

'python3',

We can probably expect nowadays machines have Python3 as python. Would you be up for a contribution to change python3 -> python?

Happy for more thoughts on this, thanks!

[ola-rozenfeld]

Hmm, we have Chromium builds on Windows, and what worked was running both scripts with cmd, e.g.:

cmd.exe /c "python3 reclient-configs\configure_reclient.py --src_dir=%SRC_PATH%"

So Windows can run python3, it just needs some convincing :-)

I'm a wary that the change might backfire with existing users, e.g. Brave. To make it backward compatible we'd probably need to clone both scripts and have a python version alongside a python3 version, which is just not quite worth it, imo.

[mxschmitt]

hm weird! So when I installed Python officially there was only python and no python3 in my PATH. Sounds like python/cpython#99185.

TL;DR: python3 will target the WindowsStore Python while python will target the actual python.exe.

I have a workaround for now, so happy to close, just confusing and I thought python is what tools use nowadays.

What convention does Chromium use upstream? Looks like python3.

[ola-rozenfeld]

What convention does Chromium use upstream? Looks like python3.

AFAIK, Chromium migrated to python3 everywhere and now relies on the Python version to be at least 3.8.

However: I just realized that I think I can fix your problem with just this: #8
Can you try this out, please? Thank you!

[mxschmitt]

I can confirm that this works for us. Appreciate!