Cannot install a wheel package in a directory with whitespaces

Summary

• If the name of current working directory contains the whitespaces
• You won’t be able to install a package with the wheel format.

This bug occurs regardless of the value of PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT environment variable.

How to reproduce this error

Please comment if you cannot reproduce the error.

$ mkdir 'directory with spaces'
$ cd 'directory with spaces/'


$ pipenv --three
Creating a Pipfile for this project...
Creating a virtualenv for this project...
⠋Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3
Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/simnalamburt/.local/share/virtualenvs/directory with spaces/bin/python3
Also creating executable in /home/simnalamburt/.local/share/virtualenvs/directory with spaces/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.

Virtualenv location:


$ pipenv install numpy
Creating a virtualenv for this project...
⠋Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/simnalamburt/.local/share/virtualenvs/directory with spaces/bin/python
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/virtualenv", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 713, in main
    symlink=options.symlink)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 925, in create_environment
    site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear, symlink=symlink))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1370, in install_python
    os.symlink(py_executable_base, full_pth)
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: 'python' -> '/home/simnalamburt/.local/share/virtualenvs/directory with spaces/bin/python3.6'

Virtualenv location:
Installing numpy...
Collecting numpy
  Using cached numpy-1.12.0-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Installing collected packages: numpy

Error:  An error occurred while installing numpy!
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber
    ensure_dir(destdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy-1.12.0.dist-info'

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My Environment

I could reproduce the error in multiple environments. Please comment if you want more information.

$ uname -a
Linux 4.9.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 09:22:26 CET 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.0
$ pipenv --version
pipenv, version 3.4.1

$ uname -a
Darwin 16.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.4.0: Thu Dec 22 22:53:21 PST 2016; root:xnu-3789.41.3~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.0
$ pipenv --version
pipenv, version 3.4.1

[kennethreitz]

i don’t personally think this is the right approach, having the project virtualenv named after the project directory is important

[kennethreitz]

but we can do it it in exceptional cases, perhaps, like when there’s a space.