Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On 2013-02-25, 03:37 GMT, llanitedave wrote: url_link = file:/// + fullpath Isn't this too many slashes. On Linux I get URI file:usr/share/doc/whatever.html which is just too many slashes (it should be three, two for the protocol, one for the root directory). Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On 2/25/2013 1:26 AM, llanitedave wrote: On the other hand, it *is* a bit frustrating that Linux recognizes an html-style relative path, while Windows insists on the entire absolute path. Maybe we can call it a Windows bug, but a workaround would be nice to have. You can file an enhancement issue, preferably with a patch and test, as I do not expect anyone else to write a patch. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote: I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? Please provide the exact code snippet that you're using. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
Rather than using a relative path, try using
webbrowser.open('{}/documentation/help.html'.format(os.path.dirname(__file__))).
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:17 AM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote:
I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a
documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page.
On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default
browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer,
which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and
does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise.
My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting
undermined right from the start.
How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows?
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Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote: I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, llanitedave llani...@veawb.coop wrote: I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Cheers, Chris Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! BTW, Chris, the snippet I showed in the title essentially WAS the exact code. It's a method with that single line called from a wxPython Help menu. I can't really put an absolute pathname into the argument, because the application is going to be distributed to a variety of computers at my workplace, and there's no assurance that it will go into (or remain in)a particular folder. I was trying to avoid using the wx.html.HtmlWindow feature of wxPython, because it doesn't handle CSS and styles. My help page is the portal to a multi-page users guide with a style sheet to render all the content consistently. Plus, I couldn't get the wx.html.HtmlWindow to open relative paths either -- it gave me URL Malformed messages even in KDE, when webbrowser.open(filepath) was working for the exact same path. But that's something to take up on the wxPython list, I guess. This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of There should be only one obvious way to do things. If that one obvious way has a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On 24/02/2013 20:28, llanitedave wrote: On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, llanitedave llani...@veawb.coop wrote: I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Cheers, Chris Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! Only two years is nothing. Pay your money, take your choice :) This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of There should be only one obvious way to do things. If that one obvious way has a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. Misquoted as always. I guess that some day someone will quote it correctly. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote: On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, llanitedave llani...@veawb.coop wrote: I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! BTW, Chris, the snippet I showed in the title essentially WAS the exact code. Sorry, my bad. This is why I dislike messages that put critical info *only* in the subject line; I tend not to reread the subject line once I've opened the message. It's a method with that single line called from a wxPython Help menu. I can't really put an absolute pathname into the argument, because the application is going to be distributed to a variety of computers at my workplace, and there's no assurance that it will go into (or remain in)a particular folder. As Demian demonstrated, you can simply compute the absolute path from the relative path at runtime; although I would probably toss an abspath() call in for good measure (http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.abspath ). This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of There should be only one obvious way to do things. If that one obvious way has a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. On the other hand, you don't have to investigate which of N APIs is the fixed/correct one (Which PHP MySQL function is safe from SQL injection again?), and you only have wait for 1 fix instead of N. But yes, some of Python's included batteries are due for some recharging. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:48:40 PM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote: On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, llanitedave llani...@veawb.coop wrote: I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! BTW, Chris, the snippet I showed in the title essentially WAS the exact code. Sorry, my bad. This is why I dislike messages that put critical info *only* in the subject line; I tend not to reread the subject line once I've opened the message. Nah, my bad. I didn't realize that the title was the only place I'd put the actual command. I don't like it when other people do that either. It's a method with that single line called from a wxPython Help menu. I can't really put an absolute pathname into the argument, because the application is going to be distributed to a variety of computers at my workplace, and there's no assurance that it will go into (or remain in)a particular folder. As Demian demonstrated, you can simply compute the absolute path from the relative path at runtime; although I would probably toss an abspath() call in for good measure (http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.abspath ). OK, I'm going to have to study that one a bit. It looks like a new concept for my feeble brain. This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of There should be only one obvious way to do things. If that one obvious way has a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. On the other hand, you don't have to investigate which of N APIs is the fixed/correct one (Which PHP MySQL function is safe from SQL injection again?), and you only have wait for 1 fix instead of N. But yes, some of Python's included batteries are due for some recharging. Cheers, Chris You're right. It's one thing to have a persistent bug, it's another thing to offer the function in the documentation as if the bug doesn't exist. The bug report from October 2010 indicated that someone was working on a fix at that time. The fact that it's still not fixed implies that it might be something that's really hard to pin down. In a case like that, it's probably better to simply withdraw the feature, or tag it as Non-windows only -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:50:02 PM UTC-8, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/02/2013 20:28, llanitedave wrote: On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, llanitedave llani...@veawb.coop wrote: I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting undermined right from the start. How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Cheers, Chris Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! Only two years is nothing. Pay your money, take your choice :) This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of There should be only one obvious way to do things. If that one obvious way has a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. Misquoted as always. I guess that some day someone will quote it correctly. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence I think the correct quote is You pays your money, and you takes your chances. ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On 2013-02-24 20:28, llanitedave wrote: On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: [snip] Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! BTW, Chris, the snippet I showed in the title essentially WAS the exact code. It's a method with that single line called from a wxPython Help menu. I can't really put an absolute pathname into the argument, because the application is going to be distributed to a variety of computers at my workplace, and there's no assurance that it will go into (or remain in)a particular folder. I was trying to avoid using the wx.html.HtmlWindow feature of wxPython, because it doesn't handle CSS and styles. My help page is the portal to a multi-page users guide with a style sheet to render all the content consistently. Plus, I couldn't get the wx.html.HtmlWindow to open relative paths either -- it gave me URL Malformed messages even in KDE, when webbrowser.open(filepath) was working for the exact same path. But that's something to take up on the wxPython list, I guess. This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of There should be only one obvious way to do things. If that one obvious way has a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. I've had a brief look at webbrowser.py. It's looking for the browsers in the paths listed in the PATH environment variable. On my PC at least, the paths to the other browsers, such as C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox for Firefox, aren't listed there, hence the only one it can find is Internet Explorer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
For the record, I completely misread and misunderstood the question. I
should stop posting that late at night :P
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Demian Brecht demianbre...@gmail.com wrote:
Rather than using a relative path, try using
webbrowser.open('{}/documentation/help.html'.format(os.path.dirname(__file__))).
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:17 AM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote:
I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a
documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page.
On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my default
browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet Explorer,
which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to the web and
does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise.
My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting
undermined right from the start.
How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows?
--
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Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 2:15:10 PM UTC-8, MRAB wrote: On 2013-02-24 20:28, llanitedave wrote: On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: [snip] Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! BTW, Chris, the snippet I showed in the title essentially WAS the exact code. It's a method with that single line called from a wxPython Help menu. I can't really put an absolute pathname into the argument, because the application is going to be distributed to a variety of computers at my workplace, and there's no assurance that it will go into (or remain in)a particular folder. I was trying to avoid using the wx.html.HtmlWindow feature of wxPython, because it doesn't handle CSS and styles. My help page is the portal to a multi-page users guide with a style sheet to render all the content consistently. Plus, I couldn't get the wx.html.HtmlWindow to open relative paths either -- it gave me URL Malformed messages even in KDE, when webbrowser.open(filepath) was working for the exact same path. But that's something to take up on the wxPython list, I guess. This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of There should be only one obvious way to do things. If that one obvious way has a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. I've had a brief look at webbrowser.py. It's looking for the browsers in the paths listed in the PATH environment variable. On my PC at least, the paths to the other browsers, such as C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox for Firefox, aren't listed there, hence the only one it can find is Internet Explorer. Well, it's still very odd, because when I use wxPython's wx.html.HtmlWindow to click a web link, it DOES use the default browser, which is Chrome on my PC. It's just using the webbrowser.open() function that goes to IE. Until then, I'd been suspecting that wx.html.HtmlWindow was using webbrowser.open() under the hood. I guess not. But wx.html.HtmlWindow doesn't work on relative paths, it seems (in neither Linux NOR Windows), so I'm not able to find a substitute as of yet. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 3:51:09 PM UTC-8, Demian Brecht wrote:
For the record, I completely misread and misunderstood the question. I
should stop posting that late at night :P
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Demian Brecht demianbre...@gmail.com wrote:
Rather than using a relative path, try using
webbrowser.open('{}/documentation/help.html'.format(os.path.dirname(__file__))).
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:17 AM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote:
I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in
a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page.
On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my
default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet
Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to
the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise.
My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting
undermined right from the start.
How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows?
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Well, between you and Chris, I think you've got me on the right track. If
things keep going like they are now, I should have it back under control in an
hour or two.
So, thanks in advance for all of you!
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Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
Well, we can mark this one as solved.
Simple enough, actually -- thanks to Chris and Demian for leading me to water.
The following code works on both Linux and Windows 7:
def OnDocs(self, event):
Opens the User's Guide in the default web browser
fullpath = os.path.abspath('documentation/HTMLDocs/index.html')
url_link = file:/// + fullpath
webbrowser.open(url_link)
This allows both platforms to have their own idiosyncratic path structures
without having to create separate code for each. It even chooses the correct
browser!
I learned some more about Python today, too. I'd never explored the 'os.'
library before, and now I see things a little more clearly.
Thanks again, guys!
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Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On 2/24/2013 4:35 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 I just closed that issue an invalid. Here is most of what I wrote. ''' After reading the doc and the code, I am convinced that current behavior is close to the implied wanted behavior, and that it is not a bug. The doc says webbrowser.open(url, new=0, autoraise=True) Display url using the default browser. What does 'default browswer' mean? Near the top, the doc says If the environment variable BROWSER exists, it is interpreted to override the platform default list of browsers,. So the 'default browser' is actually the 'default browser list'. What open() does is to try each in turn and stop when one says it succeeded. So the doc should say 'using the first default browser that claims to succeed.' What does 'default browser list' mean? It depends on the platform *and* the software loaded on the particular machine when webbrowser is first imported in a particular instance of the interpreter. The 'platform' part is in the quote above, the rest is not. I will open a separate doc issue. On Windows, the list starts with 'default Windows browser', which calls os.startfile(), which, I believe, does call the user default browser. Next is Internet Explorer -- if available at that time on the particular machine! If the user-default browser rejects the url, then IE is tried. On my win7 machine today, I have Firefox the default and IE available. Firefox rejects 127.0.0.1:8080 with an 'Unable to connect' error box. IE 'accepts' it in the sense that it displays an information starting 'The webpage cannot be displayed'. ''' For *this* issue, I strongly suspect that Chrome is rejecting the invalid URL and telling Python so. So IE is tried next (but not first). The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). so that Chrome does not return an error code, in which case IE should *not* be tried as a backup. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On 2/24/2013 3:28 PM, llanitedave wrote: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! We need more volunteers who will do the kind of careful review of report, doc, and code I just did. Feel free to help. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 9:35:17 PM UTC-8, Terry Reedy wrote: On 2/24/2013 4:35 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 I just closed that issue an invalid. Here is most of what I wrote. ''' After reading the doc and the code, I am convinced that current behavior is close to the implied wanted behavior, and that it is not a bug. The doc says webbrowser.open(url, new=0, autoraise=True) Display url using the default browser. What does 'default browswer' mean? Near the top, the doc says If the environment variable BROWSER exists, it is interpreted to override the platform default list of browsers,. So the 'default browser' is actually the 'default browser list'. What open() does is to try each in turn and stop when one says it succeeded. So the doc should say 'using the first default browser that claims to succeed.' What does 'default browser list' mean? It depends on the platform *and* the software loaded on the particular machine when webbrowser is first imported in a particular instance of the interpreter. The 'platform' part is in the quote above, the rest is not. I will open a separate doc issue. On Windows, the list starts with 'default Windows browser', which calls os.startfile(), which, I believe, does call the user default browser. Next is Internet Explorer -- if available at that time on the particular machine! If the user-default browser rejects the url, then IE is tried. On my win7 machine today, I have Firefox the default and IE available. Firefox rejects 127.0.0.1:8080 with an 'Unable to connect' error box. IE 'accepts' it in the sense that it displays an information starting 'The webpage cannot be displayed'. ''' For *this* issue, I strongly suspect that Chrome is rejecting the invalid URL and telling Python so. So IE is tried next (but not first). The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme (in your case, file:). so that Chrome does not return an error code, in which case IE should *not* be tried as a backup. -- Terry Jan Reedy Terry, after what I've learned today I'm tempted to agree that it's not necessarily a bug, and that maybe all that's needed is a bit more clarity in the documentation. On the other hand, it *is* a bit frustrating that Linux recognizes an html-style relative path, while Windows insists on the entire absolute path. Maybe we can call it a Windows bug, but a workaround would be nice to have. However, combined with os.path.abspath(), it's not a huge issue -- once we understand the approach. I certainly appreciate your taking the time to make an analysis of it, and someday I hope to have the time and skills to help out in some small way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: webbrowser.open(./documentation/help.html)-- No Go in Windows
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:26 PM, llanitedave llanited...@veawb.coop wrote: On the other hand, it *is* a bit frustrating that Linux recognizes an html-style relative path, while Windows insists on the entire absolute path. Maybe we can call it a Windows bug, but a workaround would be nice to have. That is, unfortunately, an all-too-common platform difference. But I'd say that you do have that workaround: However, combined with os.path.abspath(), it's not a huge issue -- once we understand the approach. If that works reliably on all platforms, I'd say that that's exactly the nice-to-have that you describe. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
