> Ok, I found a similar problem with MMTK.
I don’t know what that is.

> I am currently altering my distutils package to add a function called nt_quote_dir
> that adds quotes to paths with spaces and then applies it to each path if the platform
> is win32.
You shouldn’t have to do that; there’s already a similar function in distutils.spawn.

> When I'm done I will submit a diff after confirming that it works.
What is needed is a diff for distutils 2.7 or 3.2 adding a test with a file containing a space.  I can’t do anything with diffs for other projects.