In certain security minded environments, when installing python packages exe wrappers are not created. For example, when installing robotframework, there won't be robot.exe.
Pabot relies on these wrappers to be present and fails as they aren't available.
As alternative to calling robot - something like this could be used:
Since pabot will pull on robot as install dependency, robot.exe should be present -- unless original poster's PATH's are not correct. But since i've worked in one client that had this similar issue on, it might be because of missing robot.exe.
I've made some of these patches last year for my own use, if needed, i could rework those and submit a pr.
In certain security minded environments, when installing python packages exe wrappers are not created. For example, when installing robotframework, there won't be
robot.exe.Pabot relies on these wrappers to be present and fails as they aren't available.
As alternative to calling
robot- something like this could be used:For example, i'd guess something like above is happening here: https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236
Since pabot will pull on robot as install dependency, robot.exe should be present -- unless original poster's PATH's are not correct. But since i've worked in one client that had this similar issue on, it might be because of missing robot.exe.
I've made some of these patches last year for my own use, if needed, i could rework those and submit a pr.