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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Windows: Provide an option to disable search in CWD on `shutil.which`","articleBody":"I would like to search for an executable in the PATH but not from the current working directory (`cwd`). By default, as documented in [`shutil.which`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.which), it prepends the cwd before PATH, so it's not possible to get the expected executable.\r\n\r\nFor example, I have a `whoami.exe` in the cwd but I would like to get the one from the system32 directory; there's no way to do so using `shutil.which`.\r\n```py\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import shutil\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e shutil.which('whoami')\r\n'.\\\\whoami.EXE'\r\n```\r\nI think it makes sense for that to be the default behaviour since that's how it is on Windows. I would like to have a parameter to disable this behaviour in `shutil.which`.\r\n\r\nThanks!","author":{"url":"https://github.com/naveen521kk","@type":"Person","name":"naveen521kk"},"datePublished":"2022-04-15T05:41:44.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/91558/cpython/issues/91558"}