Guido van Rossum writes:
> I can't think of any function besides the attempt to avoid duplicates.
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> There were two reasons for adding this code:
>
> 1. Avoid duplicates (speeds imports if there are duplicates and
> the modules are found on an entry after the dupes).
>
> 2. Avoid breakage when a script uses os.chdir(). This is
> probably unusual for large applications, but fairly common for
> little admin helper scripts.
1) normcase(). Bad.
2) abspath(). Good.
I think #2 is a ligitimate problem, but I'm not so sure of #1: is it really so
common for sys.path to contain duplicates, to worry about it at all?
> > I'll leave it to Fred, Jack or Just to fix this.
>
> I certainly agree that this can be improved; if Jack or Just would
> like to assign it to me on SourceForge, I'd be glad to fix it.
Here's my proposed fix:
Index: site.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib/site.py,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -c -3 -r1.27 site.py
*** site.py 2001/06/12 16:48:52 1.27
--- site.py 2001/06/25 16:42:33
***************
*** 67,73 ****
def makepath(*paths):
dir = os.path.join(*paths)
! return os.path.normcase(os.path.abspath(dir))
L = sys.modules.values()
for m in L:
--- 67,73 ----
def makepath(*paths):
dir = os.path.join(*paths)
! return os.path.abspath(dir)
L = sys.modules.values()
for m in L:
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