From b4cd5c1a3aa11a7b7a180fe1d241968392ab8e33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:23:32 +0000
Subject: Remove single "." components from pathnames, and return os.curdir if
 the resulting path is empty.

---
 Lib/distutils/util.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 550d94a..d4891b3 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ def convert_path (pathname):
         raise ValueError, "path '%s' cannot end with '/'" % pathname
 
     paths = string.split(pathname, '/')
+    while '.' in paths:
+        paths.remove('.')
+    if not paths:
+        return os.curdir
     return apply(os.path.join, paths)
 
 # convert_path ()
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