New submission from Stuart Cuthbertson <stu...@sjcuthbertson.me.uk>:
I should clarify first that I haven't reproduced the following bug specifically with venv. I was asked to raise this here after raising an identical issue about virtualenv (https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1154); a GitHub user told me this would also apply to venv. The bug with virtualenv is that it errors if passed a directory that contains a $ (dollar symbol). $ is a valid character for Windows directory names, filenames, and usernames. So running something simple like `python3 -m venv` (presumably) can fail in some valid Windows directories. The full error traceback for virtualenv is available at the above GitHub URL. A commenter in the virtualenv project (see https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/457#issuecomment-377159868) suggested that this happens because the directory path is passed as-is (with $) to distutils, and distutils is seeing the text following the $ as a placeholder and trying to replace it with a variable, which isn't found. ---------- components: Windows messages: 314755 nosy: Stuart Cuthbertson, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Cannot create a venv on Windows when directory path contains dollar character type: crash versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33193> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
