more elaborate fix

pycontribs · Mar 15, 2023 · 6d0bc54 · 6d0bc54
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diff --git a/selinux/__init__.py b/selinux/__init__.py
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@ def add_location(location):
 
  def get_system_sitepackages():
  """Get sitepackage locations from system python"""
- system_python = sys.executable
+ # Do not ever use sys.executable here
+ # See https://github.com/pycontribs/selinux/issues/17 for details
+ system_python = "/usr/bin/python%s" % ".".join(
+ [str(item) for item in platform.python_version_tuple()[0:2]]
+ )
 
  system_sitepackages = json.loads(
  subprocess.check_output(