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CDWimmer opened this issue Sep 26, 2024 · 1 comment
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pip fails if on network drive. Works on UNC path, but then everything else breaks. #1419

CDWimmer opened this issue Sep 26, 2024 · 1 comment

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I have freshly unpacked the 7zip executable of Winpython64-3.12.4.1dot to a directory: P:\py\ where in P: is a network drive.

Running Winpython Command Prompt.exe to get a shell and then entering pip (or any subcommand thereof) pauses for a few seconds, followed invariably by this lengthy error:

P:\py\WPy64-31241\scripts>pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Scripts\pip.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\main.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\autocompletion.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\main_parser.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pip._internal.build_env import get_runnable_pip
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\build_env.py", line 19, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.spinners import open_spinner
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\spinners.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pip._internal.utils.logging import get_indentation
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\utils\logging.py", line 29, in <module>
    from pip._internal.utils.misc import ensure_dir
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\utils\misc.py", line 40, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.tenacity import retry, stop_after_delay, wait_fixed
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\tenacity\__init__.py", line 548, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.tenacity._asyncio import AsyncRetrying  # noqa:E402,I100
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\tenacity\_asyncio.py", line 21, in <module>
    from asyncio import sleep
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\asyncio\__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
    from .windows_events import *
  File "P:\py\WPy64-31241\python-3.12.4.amd64\Lib\asyncio\windows_events.py", line 8, in <module>
    import _overlapped
OSError: [WinError 10022] An invalid argument was supplied

I downloaded a .whl from PyPi to try to install manually using wppm -i but it produced the same error, I guess using pip internally.

I realise "Because Windows" UNC paths are wonky in cmd, so a lot of things fall apart if not on a "proper" <LETTER>: drive, but bizarrely when I separably unpacked WinPython to a UNC location, pip install xyz worked - python itself couldn't find it when trying to import, but the installed package did indeed appear in site-packages.
I then moved that version to a place with a drive letter and it could successfully import, but then pip was broken as above so I couldn't install anything else.

Obviously this is not an ideal set up: install in one location and then relocating the entire installation! What's going on here? What did I break?
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stonebig commented May 4, 2025

try .scripts/make_winpython_movable.bat ?

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