Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <413384A1.7080509@alltel.net> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:48:49 -0500 From: Ken Dibble User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: Python os.path.join inconsistency? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. This probably doesn't help though. Regards, Ken Andres Corrada-Emmanuel wrote: >Hello, > >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 > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/