Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:31:54 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Python os.path.join inconsistency?
Message-ID: <20040830203154.GA89160@tishler.net>
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <Pine DOT SOL DOT 4 DOT 31 DOT 0408301317480 DOT 11638-100000 AT dandenong DOT cs DOT umass DOT edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.31.0408301317480.11638-100000@dandenong.cs.umass.edu>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
X-IsSubscribed: yes

Andres,

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:29:38PM -0400, Andres Corrada-Emmanuel wrote:
> 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.

The above is debatable.  You may want to try asking on one of the Python
lists.

> How does one go about submitting a patch for Cygwin Python?

See the following:

    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470

Jason

-- 
PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers
Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D  8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6

--
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/