[Python-Dev] 2.5b1 Windows install (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Jul 5 05:04:29 CEST 2006

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

Aahz wrote:

Has anyone else tried doing an admin install with "compile .py files" checked? It's causing my install to blow up, but I'd prefer to assume it's some weird Windows config/bug unless other people also have it, in which case I'll file an SF report. It works fine for me. One way for it to fail is if you uncompilable modules in the target directory. Currently, it invokes [TARGETDIR]python.exe -Wi [TARGETDIR]Lib\compileall.py -f -x badcoding|badsyntax|site-packages [TARGETDIR]Lib where TARGETDIR is, well, the target directory of the installation. You could try to run this after you installed Python without pyc compilation, to see whether it succeeds.

Ah-ha! I haven't actually tested this directly, but I bet I know what's going on: this isn't properly quoted and fails with TARGETDIR of "C:\Program Files\Python25" because of the space. I did test to see that it works fine with "C:\Python25"

Shall I file a bug? Or do you want to just document this as a limitation?

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