Hey, I was looking at numpy/distutils/ccompiler.py and noticed that it has a fix for distutils.util.split_quoted. Here is the relevant code from split_quoted in numpy.distutils.ccompiler: ----------------------------------- def split_quoted(s): <snip> if _has_white_re.search(s[beg+1:end-1]): s = s[:beg] + s[beg+1:end-1] + s[end:] pos = m.end() - 2 else: # Keeping quotes when a quoted word does not contain # white-space. XXX: send a patch to distutils pos = m.end() <snip> ----------------------------------- Here is the relevant code from split_quoted in distutils.util: ----------------------------------- def split_quoted(s): <snip> s = s[:beg] + s[beg+1:end-1] + s[end:] pos = m.end() - 2 <snip> ----------------------------------- Does anyone know if a patch was ever submitted upstream? If not, is there any reason that a patch shouldn't be submitted? Thanks, -- Jarrod Millman Computational Infrastructure for Research Labs 10 Giannini Hall, UC Berkeley phone: 510.643.4014 http://cirl.berkeley.edu/