Does tox.ini need escaping for anchors in URLs (hash #)?

Question

I have a tox.ini like this

[tox]
skipsdist = True
envlist = begin,py35,py36,end

[testenv]
commands =
    pip install -e git+ssh://git@bitbucket.org/org/repo#egg=repo[server]

and I get the error

Could not detect requirement name for 'git+ssh://git@bitbucket.org/org/repo.git', please specify one with #egg=your_package_name

It looks very much as if the # is treated as a comment. Is that the case? How can I escape it?

What I tried

• \#: The \ is recognized, but not the rest - so it is not an escape character
• Quoting the whole string: ERROR: InvocationError: could not find executable 'pip install -e git+ssh://git@bitbucket.org/org/repo.git#egg=repo[server]'

Answer 1

My guess was to try quoting the URL:

[testenv]
commands =
    pip install -e "git+ssh://git@bitbucket.org/org/repo#egg=repo[server]"

and that seems to do the trick.