[Python-Dev] using pyhon from the MSYS shell (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jul 5 22:46:35 CEST 2005

lode leroy wrote:

maybe someone could extend os.path to do this in the standard distribution: implement an msyspath.py, which calls ntpath for each function, and does a replace at the end of the evaluation.

The chances are good that nobody else will work on this - so it is likely that it is either you who are doing this, or nobody else. Then, when you eventually come up with a patch, somebody will tell you that you partially erred, and that it should have been done in a different way. Still, I think this might be the only way to come to a solution that gets integrated with Python.

I'm personally in favour of supporting "MSYS" as a target system. If you want to do it, I'm willing to review patches, but I'm not willing to do them myself, as I don't use MSYS.

If you believe that MSYS is a target system in a way similar to mingw32, and to cygwin, I believe it should get the same treatment as mingw32 and cygwin. That means all places that currently deal with either of these two systems should also deal with MSYS in a similar way. What this means in actual code, I don't know.

OTOH, I already fail to follow you in the very first assumption: why is it that you need to change os.sep on MSYS?

Regards, Martin

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