On Jan 18, 11:48 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-18, apatheticagnostic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 18, 11:10 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am looking for a function to resolve 'F:/foo/bar' into '/cygdrive/f/ > >> foo/bar'. I get the original dirpath from tkFileDialog.askdirectory in > >> a Windows form and none of os.path.* functions seem to resolve it to a > >> cygwin form. Rather they _append_ it to the current directory, > >> resulting at best in a monster '/cygdrive/c/whatever/f/foo/bar'. > >> It's all being developed under cygwin currently (so it is a kind of > >> mixed environment), but I would like the fix to work correctly in any > >> environment. > > >> Thanks, > >> Marcin > > > Well, you could write it yourself.... > > > (assuming path is a string, here's a first go at it...) > > def path_into_cygpath(path): > > drive, destination = path.split(':') > > newpath = '/cygdrive/' + drive.lower() + destination > > return newpath > > Don't forget to convert backslashes into forward slashes. > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! TONY RANDALL! Is YOUR > at life a PATIO of FUN?? > visi.com
Whoops. Here we go then (are forward slashes valid in a filename in windows?) def path_into_cygpath(path): drive, destination = path.replace('\\','/').split(':') return '/cygdrive/' + drive.lower() + destination -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list