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? #11138
It does work with shell commands (e.g.
!pipinstead 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:
Closest open issue i've found is this one, but in that it looks like the spaces are escaped incorrectly? #11138