[issue33193] Cannot create a venv on Windows when directory path contains dollar character

Steve Dower added the comment: Affects distutils, which is deprecated and won't be getting any more fixes. I've migrated it to https://github.com/pypa/distutils/issues/63 -- resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue33193] Cannot create a venv on Windows when directory path contains dollar character

Irit Katriel added the comment: Reproduced on 3.11. -- nosy: +iritkatriel versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.9 -Python 2.7, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker

[issue33193] Cannot create a venv on Windows when directory path contains dollar character

Anton Patrushev added the comment: The same problem is reproducible with different but obvious way on Python 2.7. -- versions: +Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33193] Cannot create a venv on Windows when directory path contains dollar character

Anton Patrushev added the comment: I found when this "feature" was implemented: gitff2d9b71547d95566416fa968872910ca9c4adb1 Part of commit message: ``` in command-line options, and in two phases at that: first, we expand 'install_base' and 'install_platbase', and then the other 'install_*'

[issue33193] Cannot create a venv on Windows when directory path contains dollar character

Wolfgang Maier added the comment: An exotic case, but it also affects Linux: python3.7 -m venv 'at$test' Error: Command '['/home/maier/at$test/bin/python3.7', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 2.

[issue33193] Cannot create a venv on Windows when directory path contains dollar character

New submission from Stuart Cuthbertson : 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