Question

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2016-03-08, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Jon Ribbens
><jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
>> The only things I can think of that are at all 'weird' are that there
>> are spaces in the filenames, and there's more than one drive. But
>> the former of those is utterly standard for Windows, and the latter
>> doesn't really even rise to the level of 'uncommon', let alone truly
>> unusual. If I'm seeing these problems then thousands of other people
>> must have already seen them before me.
>
> The other difference is that files and folders inside Windows user
> dirs get created with implicit permissions settings, and the issue
> does appear to be permissions-related.

That's interesting, maybe that's the reason. It would certainly mean
that almost everyone who uses virtualenv with Python on Windows would
come up against this problem though - I mean, keeping your user files
under your own user home directory is hardly weird.