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
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