pythongh-98414: py.exe launcher does not use defaults for -V:company/…

… option (pythonGH-98460)

(cherry picked from commit 4bd63f6)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>

Lib/test/test_launcher.py

@@ -370,6 +370,13 @@ def test_filter_to_company(self):
         self.assertEqual(company, data["env.company"])
         self.assertEqual("3.100", data["env.tag"])
 
+    def test_filter_to_company_with_default(self):
+        company = "PythonTestSuite"
+        data = self.run_py([f"-V:{company}/"], env=dict(PY_PYTHON="3.0"))
+        self.assertEqual("X.Y.exe", data["LaunchCommand"])
+        self.assertEqual(company, data["env.company"])
+        self.assertEqual("3.100", data["env.tag"])
+
     def test_filter_to_tag(self):
         company = "PythonTestSuite"
         data = self.run_py([f"-V:3.100"])

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-10-19-19-35-37.gh-issue-98414.FbHZuS.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix :file:`py.exe` launcher handling of ``-V:<company>/`` option when
+default preferences have been set in environment variables or configuration
+files.

PC/launcher2.c

@@ -653,6 +653,7 @@ parseCommandLine(SearchInfo *search)
                     search->tag = argStart;
                 }
                 search->tagLength = (int)(tail - search->tag);
+                search->allowDefaults = false;
                 search->restOfCmdLine = tail;
             } else if (MATCHES(L"0") || MATCHES(L"-list")) {
                 search->list = true;