Install Python fails when install path contains whitespace (and probably other nonstandard characters too)

[mhaisma]

🔍 Before submitting the issue

• I have searched among the existing issues
• I am using a Python virtual environment

🐞 Description of the bug

PowerShell Start-Process fails with "positional parameter cannot be found" when installing to path which includes white space.

The user path in my windows VM is C:\Users\John Smith\

When I try to install python, using any combination of options (any available versions, Standard vs. MiniForge, etc.) with this user login, the installation fails with the following error message:

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Error while installing Python!

Error message:

Start-Process : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument
'Smith\AppData\Local\ansys_python_installer\ansys_python_installer\Cache\python-3.11.3-amd64.exe'.
At line:1 char:2

• (Start-Process C:\Users\John Smith\AppData\Local\ansys_python_install ...

•  + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Start-Process], ParameterBindingException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand
  
  
  

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OK

My guess is that this path needs double quotation marks.

📝 Steps to reproduce

1. Create a user account named "John Smith" such that the user path is C:\Users\John Smith\
2. Login as John Smith, and Run Ansys Python Manager
3. Install Python using default selections

💻 Which operating system are you using?

Windows

📀 Which ANSYS version are you using?

23R2

🐍 Which Python version are you using?

3.10

📦 Installed packages

It does not get to the point of installing any packages

[RobPasMue]

Hi @mhaisma! Thanks for reporting this issue. Let me work on this as soon as I can.

[RobPasMue]

Hi @mhaisma! This issue has been addressed with #140 - it will be added in the next release, once we close issue #136

[RobPasMue]

Hi @mhaisma - latest released version should include your fix https://github.com/ansys/python-installer-qt-gui/releases/tag/v0.2.8