commit dbb37aac1428ddcba784d9ddc77c1708c391aa80
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Tue Jan 28 02:52:47 2020 -0800
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Tue Jan 28 02:52:47 2020 -0800
tree 8a8f5a686e6c3037c7828751c85b239c4f7365ce
parent cee5da861091cdaca99f0636af7ab8c4b0274e5f

bpo-39439: Fix multiprocessing spawn path in a venv on Windows (GH-18158)

(cherry picked from commit 0be3246d4f9c8eddcd55491901d95b09fe163f15)

Co-authored-by: Adam Meily <ameily@users.noreply.github.com>

Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py
index 075f345..7cc129e 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/spawn.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 if WINSERVICE:
     _python_exe = os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, 'python.exe')
 else:
-    _python_exe = sys._base_executable
+    _python_exe = sys.executable
 
 def set_executable(exe):
     global _python_exe