tox fails when ":" is in the current directory path

[pytoxbot]

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/203
• Originally reported by: toabctl
• Originally created at: 2014-12-18T18:19:58.669

This is on linux. Trying to execute tox when the path contains a ":" doesn't work:

$ pwd
/home/tom/devel/bla:blub/tox
tom@basilikum:~/devel/bla:blub/tox$ tox
GLOB sdist-make: /home/tom/devel/bla:blub/tox/setup.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/tox", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('tox==1.7.2', 'console_scripts', 'tox-2.7')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/_cmdline.py", line 26, in main
    retcode = Session(config).runcommand()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/_cmdline.py", line 310, in runcommand
    return self.subcommand_test()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/_cmdline.py", line 448, in subcommand_test
    if self.setupenv(venv):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/_cmdline.py", line 377, in setupenv
    envlog.set_python_info(commandpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tox/result.py", line 47, in set_python_info
    "import sys; "
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_path/local.py", line 695, in sysexec
    stdout, stderr,)
py.process.cmdexec.Error: ExecutionFailed: 1  /home/tom/devel/bla:blub/tox/.tox/py27/bin/python
ImportError: No module named site

Moving the same code to another directory and executing tox works fine.

[obestwalter]

There is still a problem, but it's different now:

setup.py:

from setuptools import setup
setup(name='dummy-setup')

tox.ini:

[tox]
envlist = py27

[testenv]
commands = pip --version

results in:

[....]
ImportError: No module named site
New python executable in /home/oliver/work/tox/tests/bla:blub/.tox/py27/bin/python2.7
Also creating executable in /home/oliver/work/tox/tests/bla:blub/.tox/py27/bin/python
ERROR: The executable /home/oliver/work/tox/tests/bla:blub/.tox/py27/bin/python2.7 is not functioning
ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is u'/home/oliver/work/tox/tests/bla:blub/.tox' (should be u'/home/oliver/work/tox/tests/bla:blub/.tox/py27')
ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable
Running virtualenv with interpreter /opt/pyenv/shims/python2.7

[obestwalter]

Might be a good idea to tackle this together with #121 and #291.

[pawelad]

I could reproduce it but I believe this is an upstream issue: pypa/virtualenv#395

[gaborbernat]

Due to lack of activity on this issue, for now, we'll close this issue.