Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/30/15:54:17
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:48:49PM -0500, Ken Dibble wrote:
>I don't know anything about Python but I do know that
>
>'c:/foo' and 'c:/foo/bar' are not windows paths.
c:/foo and c:/foo/bar are perfectly acceptable windows paths. Some
windows utilities don't accept this style of window path on the command
line but they are recognized by all of the windows functions which use
paths.
I don't know python but I am not surprised that a cygwin version of
python would be "confused" by the use of colons in path names since
avoidance of that kind of path is one of the main reasons for cygwin's
existence. The cygwin DLL does try to handle dos paths correctly but
that doesn't mean that a UNIX program which manipulates UNIX path names
will be happy to see them.
cgf
>c:\foo and c:\foo\bar are.
>
>This probably doesn't help though.
>
>Andres Corrada-Emmanuel wrote:
>>I just ran across an inconsistency on the os.path module for Cygwin
>>Python, specifically os.path.join:
>>
>>>>>import os.path
>>>>>os.path.join( 'c:/foo', 'c:/foo/bar' )
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>'c:foo/c:/foo/bar'
>>
>>
>>>>>os.path.join( '/cygdrive/c/foo', '/cygdrive/c/foo/bar' )
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>'/cygdrive/c/foo/bar'
>>
>>The first incantation of os.path.join with Windows style paths violates
>>the documentation statement that os.path.join neglects previous paths once
>>it encounters an absolute path.
>>
>>Does it not seem inconsistent that if Cygwin Python understands how to
>>execute:
>>
>>file( 'c:/foo/bar' ) as well as file( '/cygdrive/c/foo/bar' )
>>
>>it should also treat Windows style paths correctly with os.path.join? In
>>other words, it seems that Python on Cygwin cannot default to using
>>posixpath.py for os.path. It's got to be posixpath.py with some additional
>>magic to get it to do os.path.join correctly.
>>
>>How does one go about submitting a patch for Cygwin Python?
>>
>>Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
>>Senior Research Fellow
>>Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
>>University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>
>>
>>
>
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