Fix absolute base python paths conflicting

.github/workflows/check.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   push:
     branches: ["main"]
-    tags-ignore: [ "**" ]
+    tags-ignore: ["**"]
   pull_request:
   schedule:
     - cron: "0 8 * * *"
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ jobs:
           - windows-latest
         exclude:
           - { os: windows-latest, tox_env: pkg_meta }
+          - { os: windows-latest, tox_env: docs }
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
 
   release:
     needs:
-    - build
+      - build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     environment:
       name: release

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ repos:
     rev: 0.29.1
     hooks:
       - id: check-github-workflows
-        args: [ "--verbose" ]
+        args: ["--verbose"]
   - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
     rev: v2.3.0
     hooks:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: pyproject-fmt
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: "v0.5.6"
+    rev: "v0.5.7"
     hooks:
       - id: ruff-format
       - id: ruff
@@ -33,11 +33,18 @@ repos:
     rev: 1.18.0
     hooks:
       - id: blacken-docs
-        additional_dependencies: [black==24.4.2]
+        additional_dependencies: [black==24.8]
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pygrep-hooks
     rev: v1.10.0
     hooks:
       - id: rst-backticks
+  - repo: https://github.com/rbubley/mirrors-prettier
+    rev: "v3.3.3" # Use the sha / tag you want to point at
+    hooks:
+      - id: prettier
+        additional_dependencies:
+          - prettier@3.3.3
+          - "@prettier/plugin-xml@3.4.1"
   - repo: local
     hooks:
       - id: changelogs-rst

docs/changelog/3325.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix absolute base python paths conflicting - by :user:`gaborbernat`.

pyproject.toml

@@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ lint.ignore = [
   "D",       # ignore documentation for now
   "D203",    # `one-blank-line-before-class` (D203) and `no-blank-line-before-class` (D211) are incompatible
   "D212",    # `multi-line-summary-first-line` (D212) and `multi-line-summary-second-line` (D213) are incompatible
-  "DOC201",  # broken with sphinx docs
+  "DOC201",  # no restructuredtext support yet
+  "DOC402",  # no restructuredtext support yet
   "DOC501",  # broken with sphinx docs
   "INP001",  # no implicit namespaces here
   "ISC001",  # conflicts with formatter

src/tox/tox_env/python/api.py

@@ -168,9 +168,14 @@ def _validate_base_python(
         if env_base_python is not None:
             spec_name = PythonSpec.from_string_spec(env_base_python)
             for base_python in base_pythons:
-                if Path(base_python).is_absolute():
-                    return [base_python]
                 spec_base = PythonSpec.from_string_spec(base_python)
+                if spec_base.path is not None:
+                    path = Path(spec_base.path).absolute()
+                    if str(spec_base.path) == sys.executable:
+                        ver, is_64 = sys.version_info, sys.maxsize != 2**32
+                        spec_base = PythonSpec.from_string_spec(f"{sys.implementation}{ver.major}{ver.minor}-{is_64}")
+                    else:
+                        spec_base = cls.python_spec_for_path(path)
                 if any(
                     getattr(spec_base, key) != getattr(spec_name, key)
                     for key in ("implementation", "major", "minor", "micro", "architecture")
@@ -183,6 +188,17 @@ def _validate_base_python(
                     raise Fail(msg)
         return base_pythons
 
+    @classmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def python_spec_for_path(cls, path: Path) -> PythonSpec:
+        """
+        Get the spec for an absolute path to a Python executable.
+
+        :param path: the path investigated
+        :return: the found spec
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
     @abstractmethod
     def env_site_package_dir(self) -> Path:
         """

src/tox/tox_env/python/virtual_env/api.py

@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 
 import os
 import sys
+from abc import ABC
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, cast
 
 from virtualenv import __version__ as virtualenv_version
-from virtualenv import session_via_cli
+from virtualenv import app_data, session_via_cli
+from virtualenv.discovery import cached_py_info
+from virtualenv.discovery.py_spec import PythonSpec
 
 from tox.config.loader.str_convert import StrConvert
 from tox.execute.local_sub_process import LocalSubProcessExecutor
@@ -17,13 +20,14 @@
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from virtualenv.create.creator import Creator
+    from virtualenv.discovery.py_info import PythonInfo as VirtualenvPythonInfo
     from virtualenv.run.session import Session
 
     from tox.execute.api import Execute
     from tox.tox_env.api import ToxEnvCreateArgs
 
 
-class VirtualEnv(Python):
+class VirtualEnv(Python, ABC):
     """A python executor that uses the virtualenv project with pip."""
 
     def __init__(self, create_args: ToxEnvCreateArgs) -> None:
@@ -167,3 +171,30 @@ def environment_variables(self) -> dict[str, str]:
         environment_variables = super().environment_variables
         environment_variables["VIRTUAL_ENV"] = str(self.conf["env_dir"])
         return environment_variables
+
+    @classmethod
+    def python_spec_for_path(cls, path: Path) -> PythonSpec:
+        """
+        Get the spec for an absolute path to a Python executable.
+
+        :param path: the path investigated
+        :return: the found spec
+        """
+        info = cls.get_virtualenv_py_info(path)
+        return PythonSpec.from_string_spec(
+            f"{info.implementation}{info.version_info.major}{info.version_info.minor}-{info.architecture}"
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_virtualenv_py_info(path: Path) -> VirtualenvPythonInfo:
+        """
+        Get the version info for an absolute path to a Python executable.
+
+        :param path: the path investigated
+        :return: the found information (cached)
+        """
+        return cached_py_info.from_exe(
+            cached_py_info.PythonInfo,
+            app_data.make_app_data(None, read_only=False, env=os.environ),
+            str(path),
+        )

tests/tox_env/python/test_python_api.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import os
 import sys
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Callable
 from unittest.mock import patch
@@ -126,24 +125,6 @@ def test_base_python_env_no_conflict(env: str, base_python: list[str], ignore_co
     assert result is base_python
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    ("env", "base_python", "platform"),
-    [
-        ("py312-unix", ["/opt/python312/bin/python"], "posix"),
-        ("py312-win", [r"C:\Program Files\Python312\python.exe"], "nt"),
-        ("py311-win", [r"\\a\python311\python.exe"], "nt"),
-        ("py310-win", [r"\\?\UNC\a\python310\python.exe"], "nt"),
-        ("py310", ["//a/python310/bin/python"], None),
-    ],
-    ids=lambda a: "|".join(a) if isinstance(a, list) else str(a),
-)
-def test_base_python_absolute(env: str, base_python: list[str], platform: str | None) -> None:
-    if platform and platform != os.name:
-        pytest.skip(f"Not applicable to this platform. ({platform} != {os.name})")
-    result = Python._validate_base_python(env, base_python, False)  # noqa: SLF001
-    assert result == base_python
-
-
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("ignore_conflict", [True, False])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     ("env", "base_python", "expected", "conflict"),