diff --git a/src/cli.js b/src/cli.js
index f66b4cf..50e2e62 100644
--- a/src/cli.js
+++ b/src/cli.js
@@ -1,27 +1,19 @@
 const
   { normalize } = require('path'),
   { Promise, promisify } = require('bluebird'),
-  { createWriteStream, readFile } = require('fs')
+  { createWriteStream, readFile } = require('fs'),
+  { dequote } = require('./util')
 
 const readFileAsync = promisify(readFile),
   isWindows = process.platform === 'win32'
 
-function dequoteStdIn (input) {
-  input = input.trim()
-  if (input.startsWith('\'') && input.endsWith('\'') ||
-    input.startsWith('"') && input.endsWith('"')) {
-    return input.slice(1).slice(0, -1)
-  }
-  return input
-}
-
 function getStdIn () {
   return new Promise((resolve) => {
     const bundle = []
     process.stdin.setEncoding('utf-8')
     process.stdin.on('data', x => bundle.push(x))
     process.stdin.once('end', () =>
-      resolve(dequoteStdIn(Buffer.concat(bundle).toString()))
+      resolve(dequote(Buffer.concat(bundle).toString()))
     )
     process.stdin.resume()
   })
diff --git a/src/compiler.js b/src/compiler.js
index aa1f978..325bde3 100644
--- a/src/compiler.js
+++ b/src/compiler.js
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ const
   { normalizeOptions } = require('./options'),
   { readFile, writeFile, createReadStream } = require('fs'),
   { spawn } = require('child_process'),
-  { logger } = require('./logger')
+  { logger } = require('./logger'),
+  { dequote } = require('./util')
 
 const
   isWindows = process.platform === 'win32',
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ module.exports.NexeCompiler = class NexeCompiler {
       return
     }
     if (isWindows) {
-      this.env.PATH = this.env.PATH + ';' + normalize(dirname(pythonPath))
+      this.env.PATH = this.env.PATH + ';"' + dequote(normalize(pythonPath)) + '"'
     } else {
       this.env.PYTHON = pythonPath
     }
diff --git a/src/util.js b/src/util.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7375f45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+function dequote (input) {
+  input = input.trim()
+  if (input.startsWith('\'') && input.endsWith('\'') ||
+    input.startsWith('"') && input.endsWith('"')) {
+    return input.slice(1).slice(0, -1)
+  }
+  return input
+}
+
+module.exports.dequote = dequote
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