On Jun 12, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Bob Swerdlow wrote: > Hi, our app is using py2app 0.2.1 and we've been quite happy with it - > thanks! > > However, we have found that it crashes if the application is > started in a > folder whose name contains a colon. Of course, the Finder does not > allow > the user to use a colon in file names, but other applications do. > According > to the user:
In Carbon APIs, these colons are represented by '/' (the POSIX path delimiter)... from Finder (and I think also at the lowest level HFS+ APIs), that path looks like "6/10/06". Anything using the POSIX APIs is going to see "6:10:06" though. > Is this a known problem? Is there a work-around? It's a problem with Python actually, which persists even in the trunk. Probably because a colon is often treated as a delimiter for a list of paths (such as the PATH or PYTHONPATH environment variables). If you run Python from a path containing ':' and look at sys.path, you'll see that the paths that would've contained a colon are mangled. I'm not sure where this happens and I don't have time to track it down at the moment. It won't be possible to work around this without patching the Python interpreter. For now you'll just have to tell your users Don't Do That. I can only think of two workarounds: (1) just tell the user that they can't run the app from a path containing a ":" in a relatively friendly manner (could be done in the py2app bootstrap). (2) make a symlink somewhere from the py2app bootstrap if a ":" is in the working directory and re-exec. I'm unlikely to do either of those things any time soon, but patches are accepted. If you come up with a patch for Python, file it on sourceforge and shoot a message referencing it here and someone will definitely apply it. I'd hurry up though, because Python 2.5 is pretty far along. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
