[Python-Dev] Directories w/ spaces - pita

[Greg Ward]

On 03 January 2003, Skip Montanaro said:
> For example, on my Mac OS X system, building creates these two
> directories:
> 
>     ./build/lib.darwin-6.3-Power Macintosh-2.3
>     ./build/temp.darwin-6.3-Power Macintosh-2.3
> 
> I assume this is a configure thing, accepting the output of uname -m without
> further processing.

No, it's a distutils thing -- the code to change is get_platform() in
Lib/distutils/util.py.  Should probably munge *all* the strings returned
by os.uname() to remove characters that don't belong on filenames.

        Greg
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