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Re: pip install mitmproxy - fails on watchdog-0.8.3.tar.gz with "Permission denied" error (Python 2.7.11 on Win XP SP3);

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: pip install mitmproxy - fails on watchdog-0.8.3.tar.gz with "Permission denied" error (Python 2.7.11 on Win XP SP3);
Date 2016-01-24 02:14 +1100
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
<apetrie@aspetrie.net> wrote:
> In both failure cases, it looks to me like there is a bug in the pip logic,
> that is using a *nix forward slash "/" instead of a double backslash "\\"
> before the file name "make.bat".

I'm not sure what your exact problem is, but I can say that it isn't
this; the Unix-style forward slash is perfectly legal under Windows
(and it's even legal to mix and match).

ChrisA

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Re: pip install mitmproxy - fails on watchdog-0.8.3.tar.gz with "Permission denied" error (Python 2.7.11 on Win XP SP3); Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 02:14 +1100

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