how to resolve Windows pathnames into cygwin ones

[apatheticagnostic]

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