Using virtualenv with spaces in a path

I set up a virtualenv environment on my Mac, but cannot get Pip to install packages. It fails with the following error:

/Volumes/Macintosh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I tracked the problem down to there being a space in the path, as is answered here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10873611/126564
(the path being /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Python/my_project)

But that's a bit of a problem. The proposed solution is to:

"just put your virtualenv environment in a path without a space,"

but the part with the space is the volume itself. All of my paths would have a space, unless I stored them in a directory of /. And I don't think "store your stuff outside of user space" is a good solution.

Is there a better solution to this?

Solution 1:

Trying this:

• editing bin/activate, change VIRTUAL_ENV='/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Python/my_project', and change PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH", to make it work in your environment. using echo $PATH to check if it works.

• editing bin/pip and bin/easy_install, change first line in the two files to

  #!/usr/bin/env python

After above 2 steps, you'll make your virtualenv works(also pip/easy_install).

Solution 2:

Note that you don't have to use your project folder for virtualenv. For example, you can place your virtualenv into /tmp folder or any other folder without spaces:

virtualenv /tmp/temporary_virtualenv
virtualenv /home/my_envs/env_for_projectname