Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> added the comment:
An exotic case, but it also affects Linux: python3.7 -m venv 'at$test' Error: Command '['/home/maier/at$test/bin/python3.7', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 2. [maier@nb19 ~]$ mkdir 'at$test' mkdir: cannot create directory ‘at$test’: File exists [maier@nb19 ~]$ cd 'at$test' [maier@nb19 at$test]$ bin/python -m ensurepip Collecting setuptools Collecting pip Installing collected packages: setuptools, pip Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/util.py", line 187, in subst_vars return re.sub(r'\$([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*)', _subst, s) File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/re.py", line 198, in sub return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count) File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/util.py", line 184, in _subst return os.environ[var_name] File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/os.py", line 678, in __getitem__ raise KeyError(key) from None KeyError: 'test' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/tmpppaapmyk/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/tmp/tmpppaapmyk/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run prefix=options.prefix_path, File "/tmp/tmpppaapmyk/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install **kwargs File "/tmp/tmpppaapmyk/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix) File "/tmp/tmpppaapmyk/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files isolated=self.isolated, File "/tmp/tmpppaapmyk/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/wheel.py", line 247, in move_wheel_files prefix=prefix, File "/tmp/tmpppaapmyk/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/locations.py", line 153, in distutils_scheme i.finalize_options() File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/command/install.py", line 307, in finalize_options self.expand_basedirs() File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/command/install.py", line 486, in expand_basedirs self._expand_attrs(['install_base', 'install_platbase', 'root']) File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/command/install.py", line 480, in _expand_attrs val = subst_vars(val, self.config_vars) File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/distutils/util.py", line 189, in subst_vars raise ValueError("invalid variable '$%s'" % var) ValueError: invalid variable '$'test'' So the venv actually gets created, but it's ensurepip which chokes on the $. ---------- nosy: +wolma versions: +Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33193> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com