shutil.which() not finding programs without appending file extension

Question

Trying to use shutil.which() to determine if git is installed. From the docs, I see which() on Windows should use PATHEXT to know which file extensions

Answer 1

Remove the trailing ; from your PATHEXT environment variable. It seems shutil.which() gets confused by this and interprets an empty string as a valid file extension, and therefore doesn't try to append any of the file extensions.

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