PYTHONPATH & Win 98 - seems broken

[Jonadab the Unsightly One]

Mitchell Timin <timin at home.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all those who helped.  The trouble turns out to be that the python
> interpreter wont accept "my documents" as part of PYTHONPATH; it requires
> mydocu~1.

This is not a Python problem as such.

Roughly one third of all Windows apps[1] have trouble of one kind or
another at one time or another with LFNs.  Spaces are the most
common cause of grief.  Spaces in filenames are, generally speaking,
a bad idea.  Spaces in directory names are, generally speaking,
a worse idea.  Actually, restricting directory names to eight
alphanumeric characters is no bad idea.

I don't install things in C:\progra~1\foo anymore; I put
them in C:\apps\foo instead.  It saves trouble.  

I'm just waiting for some version of Windows to decide
to put CRLFs in the default system directory names...  

"yeah, that would be, like, soooo cool, then ur file 
names could be really descriptive, u could have a 
filename be mor than 1 lines, dude, cool, neato...  
I think I'll name this neato new file into 
C:\Kewl stuff that I collected off the internet\pictures:
animated\high resoution \Neato Nifty dillbert 
komics strips\ my favorites \funny funny haha ROFL
LOL.jpg...  hey!  my computer isnt working nemore, 
why?  HELP!"

[1] Probably a low figure.  And almost every DOS app.  
    And almost every Windoze port of a Unix app, too.  

- jonadab