Problem with PATH variable

[kevin-stuart]

After installing this plugin SendREPL, I had a problem with it and reported it here. It turned out that the PATH variable was not correct. python-pywin32 could therefore not be loaded, which caused problems with SendREPL.

More specifically, looking at PATH with from os import environ; environ["PATH"] it turned out that :/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin was appended to PATH, but on Windows the separator is ";". So appending with ":" destroys the last element, which was pywin32 in this case.

I tried uninstalling plugins one by one to determine which plugin caused this and it seems that it is the fault of this plugin. Installing it again makes the problem reappear and uninstalling and restarting makes it disappear.

I found this piece of code, which uses string operations for modifying PATH:

ENVIRON = os.environ
if platform.system() != 'Windows':
    ENVIRON['PATH'] += ':/usr/local/bin'

However, just looking at it, it should not be the cause of it. However, it is also strange that /usr/local/bin is appended two times. So I have not yet found the exact problem.

[randy3k]

There are 2 issues here.

1. it should be windows instead of Windows
2. For Sublime Text 3, It should actually be put under the function plugin_loaded.

[munro]

Ah smart, the code should be switched to os.pathsep which choose the correct PATH separator for the system

[randy3k]

In fact, /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin should NOT be added to PATH on Windows. It is not a separator issue at all.