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> Can you upload your build somewhere so I can try running it in my test environment? [app.zip](https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/files/12838097/app.zip) > which will likely means that the different behavior is caused by...

> Indeed, it works for me as well. So, if issue is with OS, the main quesion is why python interpreter works on it? > What's the version of the...

FWIW, I tried interact directly with kernel32: ``` import os import sys import ctypes import pathlib def get_env(name): n = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetEnvironmentVariableW(name, None, 0) if n == 0: return None buf...

I also tried to decode `b'C:\\Users\\\xd9\x85\xd9\x85\xd8\xaf\\AppData\\Roaming'` with all available encodings, and compare them visually to check which prints like that compiled app did. and here is the result: `cp720, cp860,...

https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments: > MSVCRT vs UCRT These are two variants of the C standard library on Microsoft Windows. MSVCRT (Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime) is available by default on all Microsoft Windows...

@ofek Does https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/9599 solve your issue?

```py >>> iterable = [1,2] >>> list(iterable).pop() 2 >>> next(iter(iterable)) 1 >>> ```

> What should happen? IMO, then in that scenario, uv should fail with dependency conflict error. But when that scenario didn't happen, I think it's valid to handle `package_b @...

IMO, We could also consider `--force` instead of `--clear` to also fix #1863 where target path is exists but is not venv.

> Can you say a bit more about how / when you use this? When I need a dependencies-tree in an environment, and I didn't have/use `requirements.in`. So, first step...