Windows: Bug in Interpreter Path Handling

[kummerer94]

I am using shiv to create .pyz files for easy Python code execution on Windows. My usage is like this:

shiv --site-packages dist --compressed -p 'py -3.9' -o myapp.pyz -e myapp.main

For some reason, I am having issues with this now on Windows 11 with the newest python version / python launcher installed (Python Launcher for Windows Version 3.12.0):

C:\Users\Me\Downloads>myapp.pyz
Unable to create process using 'C:\Users\Me\Downloads\py -3.9 "C:\Users\Me\Downloads\myapp.pyz" ': The system cannot find the file specified.

Any help or direction with this would be greatly appreciated as I am not sure what to make of this. It seems like the path to the interpreter is prefixed with the current directory. Can I stop this from happening?