Message 31936 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I understand that the default install location is non-standard becuase Python has trouble at times with spaces in filenames. However, if this is an engineering decision is there a trace of the bugs that are avoided because of it? The user isn't warned on installation not to choose a location with spaces to avoid problems x y and z. A regular windows user will find it odd that Python wants to be installed in C:\Python and I would imagine that in many managed environments this won't be possible.

So the response to this bug shouldn't be just to close it, maybe it needs a patch to warn people of the issue when installing python at the least. In the longer term though it seems really odd that Python can't solve this relatively simple problem that other envionments have no trouble with.

Steve