From b530df1cde9eb78769b16306621b003cc2d09abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: firewave <firewave@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:21:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #12264 - auto-detection of Python in Visual Studio
 built binaries when `python3.exe` does not exist

---
 lib/cppcheck.cpp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/cppcheck.cpp b/lib/cppcheck.cpp
index 2d772662d69..ba2e4170c4c 100644
--- a/lib/cppcheck.cpp
+++ b/lib/cppcheck.cpp
@@ -226,10 +226,10 @@ static std::string detectPython(const CppCheck::ExecuteCmdFn &executeCommand)
         std::string out;
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
         // FIXME: hack to avoid debug assertion with _popen() in executeCommand() for non-existing commands
-        const std::string cmd = std::string(py_exe) + " --version >NUL";
+        const std::string cmd = std::string(py_exe) + " --version >NUL 2>&1";
         if (system(cmd.c_str()) != 0) {
             // TODO: get more detailed error?
-            break;
+            continue;
         }
 #endif
         if (executeCommand(py_exe, split("--version"), "2>&1", out) == EXIT_SUCCESS && startsWith(out, "Python ") && std::isdigit(out[7])) {