Bob Ippolito wrote:
> There's a similar issue in that if sys.prefix contains a colon, Python
> is also busted:
> http://python.org/sf/1507224
>
> Of course, that's not a Windows issue, but it is everywhere else. The
> offending code in that case is Modules/getpath.c,
Since it has to do with the definition of Py_GetPath as returning a single
string that is really a DELIM separated list of strings, where DELIM is
defined by the current platform (';' on Windows, ':' everywhere else), this
seems more like a platform problem than a Python problem, though - you can't
have directories containing a colon as an entry in PATH or PYTHONPATH either.
It's not really Python's fault that the platform defines a legal filename
character as the delimiter for path entries.
The only real alternative I can see is to normalise Py_GetPath to always
return a ';' delimited list of strings, regardless of platform, and update
PySys_SetPath accordingly. That'd cause potential compatibility problems for
embedded interpreters, though.
I guess we could create a Py_GetPathEx and a PySys_SetPathEx that accepted the
delimeters as arguments, and change the call in pythonrun.c from:
PySys_SetPath(Py_GetPath())
to:
PySys_SetPathEx(Py_GetPathEx(';'), ';')
(still an incompatible change, but an easier to manage one since you can
easily provide different behavior for earlier versions of Python)
> which probably also
> has to change in order to make unicode directories work on Win32 (though
> I think there may be a separate win32 implementation of getpath).
There is - PC/getpathp.c
Cheers,
Nick.
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