Problem Compiling Docs using make.py

[thiviyanT]

When there is a space in the name of a parent directory, make.py fails to run.

$ python make.py html

This is the output of the command:

usage: sphinx-build [OPTIONS] SOURCEDIR OUTPUTDIR [FILENAMES...]
sphinx-build: error: cannot find source directory (/Users/usr/Documents/Pandas Sprint/pandas/doc/Sprint/pandas/doc/build/doctrees)

However, when after removing the space from the directory name (i.e. change 'Pandas Sprint' to 'PandasSprint') the python script executed as expected.

Hope this helps.
Thiviyan

[jorisvandenbossche]

Thanks for the report. I suppose this could be fixed by quoting the paths where we call this in

pandas/doc/make.py

Line 237 in 563a6ad

SOURCE_PATH,

[thiviyanT]

Thank you @jorisvandenbossche. I seem to have solved the issue by modifying 3 lines of code. As this will be my first contribution towards the Pandas project I am struggling to write a git commit message that can be readily understood by the community. Would the following message be fine?

DOC: Fix whitespace in pathnames issue by wrapping paths with quotes (#20862)

[jorisvandenbossche]

@ThiviyanThanapalasingam That sounds good!

[jorisvandenbossche]

Closed by #20880