[Patches] [ python-Patches-677890 ] add optional CWD argument to os.path.abspath()

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Patches item #677890, was opened at 2003-01-30 20:23
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Category: Library (Lib)
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Submitted By: Greg Klanderman (gregklanderman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: add optional CWD argument to os.path.abspath()

Initial Comment:
I would like to add an optional second argument to
os.path.abspath() to allow specifying the directory
with respect to which the path should be made
absolute.  This would be much like the optional second
argument of the expand-file-name function in emacs:

(expand-file-name NAME &optional DEFAULT-DIRECTORY)

The patch is against python 2.2.2.  I am running RH 6.3
linux 
but that should not matter.

thanks
Greg Klanderman
gak at klanderman.net


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Comment By: Greg Klanderman (gregklanderman)
Date: 2007-03-12 00:31

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Well, it's been 4 years and I'd pretty much forgotten about this.. but I
believe I had a case where my program had some configuration item - the
base directory w.r.t. which other files were to be found.  So if you have
one of those file names, it's convenient to use abspath() except you don't
want it relative to the process' cwd, you want it relative to the
configured directory.  Anyway, it's no big deal, you can just close this if
you want.

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Comment By: Collin Winter (collinwinter)
Date: 2007-03-11 20:49

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What's your motivating use-case for this?

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Comment By: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers)
Date: 2004-08-21 08:55

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Well, depends on what you mean by 'support'. I don't think
anyone seriously objects, but there doesn't seem to be
anyone who really cares either. That usually means that if
you care enough to create a complete implementation
(including tests and documentation changes) yourself, the
patch will be accepted. So please submit a new patch if you
do care enough.

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Comment By: Greg Klanderman (gregklanderman)
Date: 2003-02-05 13:09

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i can submit a patch for those other versions of abspath. 
but i'd rather know whether there is support for this change
before doing that.



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Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2003-02-05 05:16

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And don't forget riscospath.py found in the plat-risc directory in Lib in
the source distribution.  =)

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Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2003-02-05 05:06

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What about ntpath.py and os2emxpath.py?

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Comment By: Greg Klanderman (gregklanderman)
Date: 2003-01-30 20:28

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sorry, trying again to attach the patch..

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