New submission from DMI-1407 <dmi-1...@live.de>:
If the windows installer (Python 3.8.9 64bit exe) is run in quiet mode and the TargetDir option is used, then the last quote (") symbol gets escaped if the path ends with an backslash (\). Example: /quiet TargetDir="D:\pyt hon\" AssociateFiles=0 Result: TargetDir=hon\" AssociateFiles=0 this raises the error that the path contains a invalid character... (the quote ofc) Example: /quiet TargetDir="D:\pyt hon" AssociateFiles=0 Result: installs correctly so in general "D:\pyt hon" indicates a file thats named "pyt hon" where "D:\pyt hon\" indicates a folder. whatever "D:\pyt hon\" should be valid and i dont understand why the first backslash does not escape the p and leads to "D:pyt hon" ... its really annoying, pls do at least write a notice into the docs that the installer behaves like this. :/ ---------- components: Installation messages: 400809 nosy: DMI-1407 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: windows installer quiet installation targetdir escapes "quote"-symbol type: behavior versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45073> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com