Re: Bug in python.el (at least for Windows OS)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Strip <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:41:16 +0000
> 
> If the path to the python executable contains an embedded space, any command
> that attempts to spawn a shell will fail with "invalid argument" since the
> space makes the command appear to contain extra args.
> In some sense, the root of the problem is locate-file, called by
> executable-find (both defined in files.el). locate-file does not return quoted
> paths. I'm not sure if the best fix is at the locate-files level, since I'm 
> not
> sure what consequences this might have elsewhere, esp on non-Windows OS's. The
> most localized fix would be in python.el, changing python-shell-parse-command
> to add the required quotes. In the simplest case, this would be just change 
> the
> format statement from
> 
>     (format "%s %s"
>     
> 
> to
> 
>     (format "\"%s\" %s"
>     
> 
> This definitely works on Windows, but I'm not certain how this would affect
> other OS's. Perhaps the format string has to be conditioned on the OS.

Thanks.  Please submit a bug report about that, using the
'report-emacs-bug' command.  If you do that from the same version of
Emacs where you have the problem, the command will collect some
auxiliary information that the maintainers need to be able to diagnose
and solve the problem.

TIA