[Dor-bl]

🎯 What: Replaced the manual executable lookup logic in find_executable within appium/webdriver/appium_service.py with Python's standard library shutil.which. Added unit tests in test/unit/webdriver/appium_service_test.py to verify behavior when an executable is found and when it is not.

💡 Why: shutil.which simplifies the implementation, improves readability, and leverages built-in, cross-platform resolution for executable files.

✅ Verification:

• Ran unit tests: PYTHONPATH=. uv run pytest test/unit/webdriver/appium_service_test.py (5 passed)
• Ran linter, type-checker, and formatting checks: make check (all passed)

✨ Result: Improved maintainability and cleanliness of find_executable without changing external behavior.

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[Dor-bl]

Closing: superseded by upstream. 3392743 ("refactor: simplify executable lookup using shutil.which", appium#1329) landed on appium/python-client and removes find_executable entirely, inlining shutil.which() calls directly into get_node/get_npm — a more thorough version of this same idea. This fork's master hasn't picked that commit up yet, but once it does this PR's target function won't exist anymore.

Heads up: #24's tests monkeypatch appium_service.find_executable directly and assert the old Windows npm.cmd suffix behavior, which that upstream commit also drops — #24 will need rework once this fork syncs past 3392743, though it isn't broken yet since the fork hasn't picked it up.

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[google-labs-jules]

Closing: superseded by upstream. 3392743 ("refactor: simplify executable lookup using shutil.which", appium#1329) landed on appium/python-client and removes find_executable entirely, inlining shutil.which() calls directly into get_node/get_npm — a more thorough version of this same idea. This fork's master hasn't picked that commit up yet, but once it does this PR's target function won't exist anymore.

Heads up: #24's tests monkeypatch appium_service.find_executable directly and assert the old Windows npm.cmd suffix behavior, which that upstream commit also drops — #24 will need rework once this fork syncs past 3392743, though it isn't broken yet since the fork hasn't picked it up.

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Understood. Acknowledging that this work is superseded by upstream and stopping work on this task.