From f0c4dace8d4bd6d713e9b9aff308301a22922149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard C Isaacson <richard.c.isaacson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:09:58 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] If a executable is defined but not found the module should
 fail. Addresses https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5781.

---
 library/packaging/pip | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/library/packaging/pip b/library/packaging/pip
index 56775177ded..666172cc0e0 100644
--- a/library/packaging/pip
+++ b/library/packaging/pip
@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ def _get_pip(module, env=None, executable=None):
         if os.path.isabs(executable):
             pip = executable
         else:
-            candidate_pip_basenames.insert(0, executable)
+            # If you define your own executable that executable should be the only candidate.
+            candidate_pip_basenames = [executable]
     if pip is None:
         if env is None:
             opt_dirs = []