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#12,896 opened on Apr 8, 2021
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Description
It does work with shell commands (e.g. !pip instead of %pip), but when using the magic commands spaces are not escaped.
In macOS Big Sur, a brand new virtualenv with spaces in its path:
$ pip list
Package Version
---------------- -------
appnope 0.1.2
backcall 0.2.0
decorator 5.0.6
ipykernel 5.5.3
ipython 7.22.0
ipython-genutils 0.2.0
jedi 0.18.0
jupyter-client 6.1.12
jupyter-core 4.7.1
parso 0.8.2
pexpect 4.8.0
pickleshare 0.7.5
pip 19.2.3
prompt-toolkit 3.0.18
ptyprocess 0.7.0
Pygments 2.8.1
PyQt5 5.15.4
PyQt5-Qt5 5.15.2
PyQt5-sip 12.8.1
python-dateutil 2.8.1
pyzmq 22.0.3
qtconsole 5.0.3
QtPy 1.9.0
setuptools 41.2.0
six 1.15.0
tornado 6.1
traitlets 5.0.5
wcwidth 0.2.5
$ ipython
Python 3.8.2 (default, Jun 2 2020, 13:57:42)
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.22.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
In [1]: !pip --version
pip 19.2.3 from /Users/microbit-carlos/workspace/deleteme/really-delete/path with spaces/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)
In [2]: %pip --version
zsh:1: no such file or directory: /Users/microbit-carlos/workspace/deleteme/really-delete/path
Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.
In [3]: pip --version
zsh:1: no such file or directory: /Users/microbit-carlos/workspace/deleteme/really-delete/path
Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.
Closest open issue i've found is this one, but in that it looks like the spaces are escaped incorrectly? https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/11138