vscode-python: Unable to automatically install library due to spaces in username when using Gitbash

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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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 18 (5 by maintainers)

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

Kronen on Oct 1, 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.

gricn on Dec 30, 2020

@ahaq0 I just executed the command manually with slashes in git bash (or with backslashes in the cmd), but you can just set cmd by default momentarily for this too.

Kronen on Oct 2, 2020