[issue12956] builds fail when installing to --prefix with space in path name

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> While I'm sympathetic to supporting arbitrary path names, I'm not sure
> if it is worth the effort.

My sentiment too.  Supporting non-ASCII characters seems clearly important to me, as it’s a reasonable and common thing to run or install Python from a patch that may contain non-ASCII characters (a first name, “downloads” in French, etc.); supporting spaces is less important.

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nosy: +eric.araujo

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