venv: activate.bat fails for venv with special characters in PATH

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
operating-systems, tooling

Research direction

Start by reading activate.bat and deactivate.bat, then reproduce the failure with a virtual environment whose PATH contains special characters. Trace how activation and deactivation handle that PATH, and consider the issue complete when activate.bat works correctly for the reported case without breaking deactivation.

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Description

3.10 3.11 3.9 (EOL) OS-windows stdlib type-bug
BPO 44540
Nosy @pfmoore, @tjguk, @zware, @eryksun, @zooba
Files
  • activate.bat
  • deactivate.bat
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2021-06-30.12:44:01.750>
labels = ['type-bug', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', 'library', 'OS-windows']
title = 'venv: activate.bat fails for venv with special characters in PATH'
updated_at = <Date 2021-12-09.05:41:07.966>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/MB113'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2021-12-09.05:41:07.966>
actor = 'eryksun'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)', 'Windows']
creation = <Date 2021-06-30.12:44:01.750>
creator = 'MB113'
dependencies = []
files = ['50483', '50484']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 44540
keywords = []
message_count = 2.0
messages = ['396776', '408073']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['paul.moore', 'tim.golden', 'zach.ware', 'eryksun', 'steve.dower', 'MB113']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue44540'
versions = ['Python 3.9', 'Python 3.10', 'Python 3.11']

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