ansible-pull failed with permission denied about portable-ansible HOT 2 OPEN

Able to reproduce. Tried ansible 2.10.15 (by modifying conf/requirements to higher ansible-base>=2.10.15,<2.11 and rebuilding), but the error is still there.
I understand the problem, but don't have an elegant solution other than using sys.executable just in case python points to python2. And test if the first thing is a binary or a directory (if it's a directory, then portable-ansible, then pre-pend the sys.executable

Can you try with:

    # readsize = 10

    # On python2, shlex needs byte strings
    if PY2:
        cmd = to_bytes(cmd, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
    cmdargs = shlex.split(cmd)

    isDirectory = os.path.isdir(cmdargs[0])
    if isDirectory:
        cmdargs.insert(0,sys.executable)

It's still a hack, because we are now touching the original binaries from Ansible.

from portable-ansible.

I've learned a bit more about python and the elegant solution to force python3 is to use venv, (but that solves one of the 2 issues)

from portable-ansible.