[New-bugs-announce] [issue15361] venv's Activate.ps1 causes broken prompt with powershell

[Richard Oudkerk]

New submission from Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com>:

If I create a venv on Windows called "py3" then py3/Scripts/Activate.ps1 defines the prompt to be

    function prompt {
        Write-Host -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Green [(py3) ]
        _OLD_VIRTUAL_PROMPT
    }

However this prompt function does not work properly, and running

    Write-Host -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Green [(py3) ]

on its own produces an error because of the lack of quotes around (py3).  Adding quotes as shown in the patch seems to fix the problem.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: prompt.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 165545
nosy: sbt, vinay.sajip
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: venv's Activate.ps1 causes broken prompt with powershell
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26387/prompt.patch

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