easy_install does not handle -f option correctly with paths containing spaces

[ghost]

Originally reported by: jurko (Bitbucket: jurko, GitHub: jurko)

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Running easy_install using its -f option and passing it a folder path containing spaces as in:

#!text
easy_install -f "C:\I am a\path containing\spaces" pip

does not seem to work. easy_install seems to interpret the given string as a space separated sequence of paths.

Using such paths in other locations, e.g. in --install-dir or --download-cache arguments works fine.

This has been tested using:

• Windows 7 SP1 x64
• CPython 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.5.4, 2.6.6, 2.7.6, 3.1.3, 3.2.5, 3.3.3, 3.3.5 & 3.4.0 (both 32 & 64-bit versions).
• setuptools 1.4, 1.4.2, 3.1, 3.3

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jurko Gospodnetić

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/169

[abravalheri]

Hello, I suppose we can close this issue now that easy_install has been deprecated and widely replace by other installation means, such as pypa/pip.

If anyone would like to reopen this issue, please feel free to write a new comment with more information or other use cases that we might be missing 😄.