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Unable to automatically install library due to spaces in username when using Gitbash

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Issue Type: Bug

When trying to install ‘rope’ to rename functions the command below is run which errors due to spaces in the username ‘firstname lastname’:

 & i:/#Data/#Dev/Python/DuplicateFinder/venv-dup-finder/Scripts/python.exe c:\Users\firstname lastname\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2020.4.74986\pythonFiles\pyvsc-run-isolated.py pip install -U rope

Extension version: 2020.4.74986 VS Code version: Code 1.44.2 (ff915844119ce9485abfe8aa9076ec76b5300ddd, 2020-04-16T16:33:57.013Z) OS version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.18363

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:17 (4 by maintainers)

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Kronencommented, Oct 1, 2020

My problem was that I was using git bash (windows) as the terminal and vscode doesn’t translate the backslashes.

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gricncommented, Dec 30, 2020

My problem was that I was using git bash (windows) as the terminal and VSCode doesn’t translate the backslashes.

That’s the root of the problem. After changing the default shell to CMD, everything works fine.

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