AHK throws a ExecutableNotFoundError even with ahk-binary installed

[Saad-Mufti]

I'm trying to get ahk to work with the ahk-binary package, and testing whether it works with this simple snippet:

from ahk import AHK
ahk = AHK()

But I still get a ExecutableNotFoundError. Am I doing something wrong? I'm on Windows 11 and do have pip on my path.

[spyoungtech]

Hmm. Could you tell me what version of Python you are using?

A few things might be going on here... the most common issue would be that the Scripts directory is not on PATH or you have multiple versions of Python and have installed the package to a different interpreter.

Using a virtualenv is the most reliable way to test this.
Type these commands into the command prompt to create a virtualenv and see if you get the same error:

py -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
pip install ahk "ahk[binary]"
python -c "from ahk import AHK; ahk = AHK()"

If it still shows an error, check the contents of venv\Scripts -- AutoHotkey.exe should appear there after installing ahk-binary. If not, then something might be wrong on my end.

[Saad-Mufti]

So, using a venv did end up working, so it seems it's a problem in my environment. I thought it wasn't because I was able to import ahk-binary too so I figured if it could see ahk-binary, then it should be all set. If I had to guess, it might be something related to having both Python 3.9 and 3.8 on my PATH (my test was done in 3.9 though).

Anyway, thanks for your help, and sorry for the bother!