[issue1284316] Win32: Security problem with default installation directory

[eryksun]

eryksun added the comment:

>> As mentioned before, many packages can not handle paths with 
>> spaces.
>
> This is "common knowledge", yet may not be true anymore.  

Well, see issue 21699. pip 1.5.6 is still using distlib 0.1.8, so the executable wrappers it creates are broken when the path to python.exe contains spaces.

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