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Update PY_PYTHON env var on windows with installed version if update-environment is true
Description:
The update-environment flag updates seems to update a bunch of env variables to point at the newly installed version (cypthon example: https://github.com/actions/setup-python/blob/main/src/find-python.ts#L111).
Could it also add the PY_PYTHON=<version> on Windows whenever update-environment is true? This will make the default version for the Windows py launcher match the one requested - even if the runner has another version already installed.
Justification:
In short: make sure that py <script.py> runs on the version of python that you just installed with setup-python.
I bumped into this because we had some scripts running on a windows runner using py <script.py> in an action. The runner updated, everything broke, and we noticed that even though setup-python is installing everything correctly - if another version is there (in this case a newer version) running anything with py can use the other version instead of the one that was just installed by setup-python.
Are you willing to submit a PR?
Happy to! I just didn't want to to put time into it if the feature is not a good idea / I'm missing something. Setting the PY_PYTHON env var in the actions worked for my specific case, though I'm wondering if to do it in general it should set any other py launcher related variables to match the newly installed python too.
Hi @heathhenley, Thank you for this feature request. We will investigate it and get back to you as soon as we have some feedback.
