diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-dev.yml b/.github/workflows/python-dev.yml
index 8d14a65595abc..0923888bf8e4e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-dev.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-dev.yml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       shell: bash
       run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools<60.0.0 wheel
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip "setuptools<60.0.0" wheel
         pip install -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly/simple numpy
         pip install git+https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy.git
         pip install cython python-dateutil pytz hypothesis pytest>=6.2.5 pytest-xdist pytest-cov