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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andres Corrada-Emmanuel <corrada AT dandenong DOT cs DOT umass DOT edu>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: os.path.join inconsistency?
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Jason,

I agree the behaviour I'm arguing for is debatable. After taking a look at
ntpath.py and posixpath.py, I see that a satisfactory solution would be
tricky. I'll play around with a made-up hack like cygwinpath.py to see if
it is worth pursuing...

>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.


Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
Senior Research Fellow
Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
University of Massachusetts, Amherst



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