Unable to find python on path (~/bin)

[pytoxbot]

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/166
• Originally reported by: @Ivoz
• Originally created at: 2014-04-17T10:09:37.576

I have my own path with symlinked custom built pythons, linked in ~/bin.

$ cat ~/.bashrc
...
# Add ~/bin to path
export PATH="~/bin:$PATH"
...

$ ll ~/bin
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ivo ivo   34 Feb 28 01:09 python2.6 -> /home/ivo/local/py26/bin/python2.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ivo ivo   34 Feb 28 01:09 python3.2 -> /home/ivo/local/py32/bin/python3.2
...

$ which python2.6
/home/ivo/bin/python2.6

Tox can't find these pythons. It's because of a bug in py - https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/py/issue/44/cant-handle-standard-unix-when-using

$ tox -e py26
GLOB sdist-make: /home/ivo/code/pypa/pip/setup.py
py26 create: /home/ivo/code/pypa/pip/.tox/py26
ERROR: InterpreterNotFound: python2.6
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ summary ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
ERROR:   py26: InterpreterNotFound: python2.6

Ronny on IRC asked me to file an associated issue for tox as well.

[obestwalter]

That referenced py bug has been lost in time, so I don't know if this has ever been fixed. I guess not though. Basically there is a bigger picture which is about more intelligent interpreter discovery, which is one thing I'd like to tackle after I waded through all the open issues, so watch this space ... or better that one:

Closing this in favour of #421 with generally better discovery hopefully coming up soonish.