Closed glatterf42 closed 4 weeks ago
Using the lens of #771:
[...]
is a glob operator, so the argument to pip
must be quoted appropriately." (Or use the URL in the SO answer.) In such cases, it's always best to directly point users to the first-party docs for the tools they are using.
As discovered by @setupelz just now, users of the Z shell (zsh) might run into this error message when trying to install from source:
This issue is explained wonderfully here:
Consequently, the brackets need to be escaped or inside quotes like
pip install -e '.[docs,tests,tutorial]'
for the command to work. This could either be a Known Issue or a footnote on the specific command.We might want to include the same note in the other repos of our stack as well.