pip/easy_install failure: failed to create process

Question

After following this article: How do I install pip on Windows? on my Windows system using Enthought Canopy 64 Bit system, I cannot get pip or easy_install to work due to err

Answer 1

Just ran into this. Sort of. Pip worked for me, but after installing pytest-watch, running the ptw script was giving this error.

For some reason, pip stopped quoting the #! in ptw-script.py:

#!C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\python.exe

It worked after I added quotes manually:

#!"C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\python.exe"

I don't really know why this suddenly started happening. Adding this here in case anyone else coming here from Google runs into the same thing.

Here's a related pip issue (I think).