Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-22 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 21.05.2007, at 21:11, Stargaming wrote: You could give /foo/bar\ baz/ham or /foo/bar baz/ham (either escaping the blanks or wrapping the path in quotation marks) a try. I can't verify it either, just guess from other terminals' behaviour. I tried both already, but neither one works. If

Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-22 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 22.05.2007, at 00:34, Greg Donald wrote: On 5/21/07, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there not a similar trick on MacOS X? It's called a symlink: ln -s /Users/gdonald /foo Right, but since I have no write permissions anywhere except in my home directory (whose path already has

Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-22 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-05-22, Konrad Hinsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21.05.2007, at 21:11, Stargaming wrote: You could give /foo/bar\ baz/ham or /foo/bar baz/ham (either escaping the blanks or wrapping the path in quotation marks) a try. I can't verify it either, just guess from other terminals'

RE: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-22 Thread Hamilton, William
From: John Machin On 21/05/2007 11:30 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a Mac cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory contains a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on getting an absolute

Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-22 Thread Tim Golden
Hamilton, William wrote: There's also short filename substitution. C:\Documents and Settings\foo can be replaced with C:\docume~1\foo. In general, you take the first six non-space characters and append ~digit to it. I've never run into a situation where digit was anything other than 1, but

Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-21 Thread Stargaming
Konrad Hinsen schrieb: I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a Mac cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory contains a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on getting an absolute path for the prefix, I cannot avoid

Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-21 Thread John Machin
On 21/05/2007 11:30 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a Mac cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory contains a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on getting an absolute path for the prefix, I

Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Donald
On 5/21/07, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there not a similar trick on MacOS X? It's called a symlink: ln -s /Users/gdonald /foo -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list