how to resolve Windows pathnames into cygwin ones

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-01-18, apatheticagnostic <apatheticagnostic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 11:10 am, "mgier... at gmail.com" <mgier... at gmail.com> 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.

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