From c79ec60bee1a226fd4cc84eda56b0a470e249529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Oliver=20St=C3=B6neberg?=
 <firewave@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:34:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #12264 - auto-detection of Python in Visual Studio
 built binaries when `python3.exe` does not exist (#5765)

I also suppressed the unwanted output from the `system()`.
---
 lib/cppcheck.cpp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/cppcheck.cpp b/lib/cppcheck.cpp
index 2d772662d..ba2e4170c 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])) {