Installing pyinstaller via pip leads to “failed to create process”

Question

Does anyone know why pyinstaller immediately fails after installed via pip via anaconda 32bit?

I installed pyinstaller via

Answer 1

This error seems to occur when Python’s (or PyInstaller’s) path contains a space (for example, when one installs Python to the Program Files (x86) directory.)

I suspect that somewhere in PyInstaller’s source code there are some missing quotation marks.

Try installing Python in a path without spaces, and installing PyInstaller (via pip) to that path.