Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

[John Machin]

On 21/05/2007 11:30 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a Mac 
> cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory contains 
> a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on getting an 
> absolute path for the prefix, I cannot avoid installing to a path whose 
> name contains a blank. Python does not seem to be prepared for this, as 
> it uses only the part before the blank, resulting in numerous error 
> messages.
> 
> Does anyone know a workaround?
> 

On Windows, the workaround for pesky paths (i.e. containing blanks or 
just inconveniently long) is the subst command:

command-prompt>subst X: "C:\Documents and Settings"

Thereafter X:\foo can be used wherever "C:\Documents and Settings\foo" 
would otherwise be required.

Is there not a similar trick on MacOS X?

HTH,
John