diff --git a/lib/analyze.js b/lib/analyze.js
index a00232e42..5c03ddd34 100644
--- a/lib/analyze.js
+++ b/lib/analyze.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ async function setupPythonExtractor(logger) {
     };
     await new toolrunnner.ToolRunner(codeqlPython, [
         "-c",
-        "import·os;·import·pip;·print(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(pip.__file__)))",
+        "import os; import pip; print(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(pip.__file__)))",
     ], options).exec();
     logger.info(`Setting LGTM_INDEX_IMPORT_PATH=${output}`);
     process.env["LGTM_INDEX_IMPORT_PATH"] = output;
diff --git a/src/analyze.ts b/src/analyze.ts
index f52fe04c9..eaa23a918 100644
--- a/src/analyze.ts
+++ b/src/analyze.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ async function setupPythonExtractor(logger: Logger) {
     codeqlPython,
     [
       "-c",
-      "import·os;·import·pip;·print(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(pip.__file__)))",
+      "import os; import pip; print(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(pip.__file__)))",
     ],
     options
   ).exec();