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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-05-29 16:10:07 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-05-29 16:10:07 (GMT)
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Hack to make this play nicer with *old* versions of Python: os.path.abspath()
was not available in Python 1.5.1. (Yes, a user actually tried to use this with that version of Python!)
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@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ import sys
import tempfile
+if not hasattr(os.path, "abspath"):
+ def abspath(path):
+ """Return an absolute path."""
+ if not os.path.isabs(path):
+ path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)
+ return os.path.normpath(path)
+
+ os.path.abspath = abspath
+
+
MYDIR = os.path.abspath(sys.path[0])
TOPDIR = os.path.dirname(MYDIR)