Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Ian Kelly Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Pyton install Landmine Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:35:41 -0700 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <56996962.20203@iehinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de M6E4rHB21WQY0NWNkZqQEgWYjutebGLcMRbU38Y26VUw== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; '16,': 0.03; 'received:209.85.223': 0.03; 'components,': 0.09; 'components.': 0.09; 'python.': 0.11; 'jan': 0.11; '2016': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:install': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; '>': 0.18; 'windows': 0.20; 'machine': 0.21; 'to:2**1': 0.21; 'trying': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'installation': 0.23; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'installed': 0.26; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'folder': 0.30; 'included': 0.32; 'embedded': 0.32; 'problem': 0.33; 'correctly': 0.34; 'handle': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'files,': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'received:209.85': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'skip:& 10': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.38; 'files': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'space': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'software': 0.40; 'default': 0.61; 'practice.': 0.66; 'sounds': 0.76; 'to:name:python': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=yxLX7mq4TbSrdnBrV9HjYy6oacdT0vvbPGNG50mEfD0=; b=cophyJXd0ZR2uuJy02EkYyD4GmZepptjl6ItD6c902gRQWqfxGkrmRAcVy9daYZWN6 GygmAPaFURTaSbWx3d3PkThuRwLnzNJuO9NPVOKUOUwGQKL/9PHgEz78PvXSkix0RrfD jeXzY15F2FdKrqpFX0WIXB7ZAN/Id/AYXZt+Mn80GApbT1lNDLFtVcYgxEGX0CSq+9mM 6F4ZbduwzAvnwZB1aaQK1qj32BBQ64PCGu0Tj9FPFIybjBLrXXjFnher3Hu2+xVQ6SVd nWTE4Yh+HmDvaDU4BZ9SBfmv3YxbjUTC1yKGvj0n+pzJwBbv7Ek3zW8NthRIf2LSXYSv HKAg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=yxLX7mq4TbSrdnBrV9HjYy6oacdT0vvbPGNG50mEfD0=; b=Q4wPm32/FZII5RvNSirjU8O94YQ+drMn9w9KIqdn0LkZTw0lxyk0RZgw2gtmRrkq2O 2I3WySdztEChSVJb7c5+OlxdHesUdObq14zF498zT0464k66sC+aPQcVansCU/Ac458x 1lsushhoU7D3cP9MyJuA4rO2QxdQ76pfn8Y93Fb9YClMTrVGlSp9+gbxZlM/lReKYJCY 60KAz/Tn7+e6PP0h2W/0/rZjsyaP1MSulVzSdOMV3DnKHRHixrR0tvuIyVnN22mvWYku GALB/IAlgPDIjj4Xfjy8TsC5wnaC0DZuNC+04u3Z5lVXyTo/wJ1cUvgEm9TX8PruHLXw mDNQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlpusOM3B11DrkGFIPyNbcHESI9D1wsPj+6EMooPgY+O55Z4jMTPr3j6L9p91Jf9WNSn2vjBI+68+HxrMdCU7DzCwfcvA== X-Received: by 10.107.11.68 with SMTP id v65mr16389084ioi.188.1453001742091; Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:35:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56996962.20203@iehinc.com> X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20+ X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:101831 On Jan 16, 2016 3:02 AM, "JeffP" wrote: > > Hi > I installed pyth3.5 on my Windows machine and had some complications trying to connect other components. > I installed to the default directory chosen by the installer but that included a folder with an embedded space in the name. BIG NO NO!!!! Program Files is the standard Windows installation location for non-OS software and is selected as the default location as a security practice. If the other components to which you refer are designed for Windows but cannot correctly handle the space in Program Files, that sounds like a problem with those components, not with Python.