On 2016-03-08, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Jon Ribbens ><jon+use...@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote: >> The only things I can think of that are at all 'weird' are that there >> are spaces in the filenames, and there's more than one drive. But >> the former of those is utterly standard for Windows, and the latter >> doesn't really even rise to the level of 'uncommon', let alone truly >> unusual. If I'm seeing these problems then thousands of other people >> must have already seen them before me. > > The other difference is that files and folders inside Windows user > dirs get created with implicit permissions settings, and the issue > does appear to be permissions-related.
That's interesting, maybe that's the reason. It would certainly mean that almost everyone who uses virtualenv with Python on Windows would come up against this problem though - I mean, keeping your user files under your own user home directory is hardly weird. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list