Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

Neil Cerutti horpner at yahoo.com
Tue May 22 07:44:11 EDT 2007


On 2007-05-22, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen at laposte.net> wrote:
> On 21.05.2007, at 21:11, Stargaming wrote:
>
>> You could give /foo/bar\ baz/ham or "/foo/bar baz/ham" (either  
>> escaping
>> the blanks or wrapping the path in quotation marks) a try. I can't
>> verify it either, just guess from other terminals' behaviour.
>
> I tried both already, but neither one works. If I use a
> backslash, it  doesn't end up in the Makefile, and if I use
> quotes, I get lots of  error messages that I don't really want
> to analyze.

Try adding *more* backslashes. Sometimes, it's the only way. ;)

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