code: def get_exes_in_path(starts_with: str) -> List[str]:
          
          # Purposely don't match any executable containing wildcards
          wildcards = ['*', '?']
          for wildcard in wildcards:
              if wildcard in starts_with:
                  return []
  
          # Get a list of every directory in the PATH environment variable and ignore symbolic links
          paths = [p for p in os.getenv('PATH').split(os.path.pathsep) if not os.path.islink(p)]
  
          # Use a set to store exe names since there can be duplicates
          exes_set = set()
  
          # Find every executable file in the user's path that matches the pattern
          for path in paths:
              full_path = os.path.join(path, starts_with)
              matches = [f for f in glob.glob(full_path + '*') if os.path.isfile(f) and os.access(f, os.X_OK)]
  
              for match in matches:
                  exes_set.add(os.path.basename(match))
  
          return list(exes_set)
docs: Returns names of executables in a user's path
  
          :param starts_with: what the exes should start with. leave blank for all exes in path.
          :return: a list of matching exe names