[19:00:58] <lifeless> lets see what the difficulty is first
[19:01:05] <lifeless> there will be many more files in 6 format than 7
[19:01:12] <lifeless> of the small # that use markers at all that is
[19:03:19] <lifeless> qwcode: given that optparse is mangling the line, from a quick look it looks like unwinding the optparse patch is probably the cleanest thing
[19:31:32] <lifeless> split('--install-option "--install-purelib=/path/to directory with spaces"')
[19:31:32] <lifeless> ['--install-option', '--install-purelib=/path/to directory with spaces']
[19:31:57] <lifeless> that would work - but note that the quotes around the --install-purelib etc are preserved in the first case and gone in the second