[New-bugs-announce] [issue3701] test_ntpath.test_relpath fails when launched from a different Windows drive

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

C:\>z:PCbuild\python_d.exe z:Lib\test\regrtest.py -uall -v test_ntpath
test_ntpath
test_abspath (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_commonprefix (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_expandvars (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_isabs (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_join (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_normpath (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_relpath (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ERROR
test_split (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_splitdrive (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_splitext (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok
test_splitunc (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath) ... ok

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ERROR: test_relpath (test.test_ntpath.TestNtpath)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Z:\py3k\__svn__\lib\test\test_ntpath.py", line 171, in test_relpath
    tester('ntpath.relpath("a")', 'a')
  File "Z:\py3k\__svn__\lib\test\test_ntpath.py", line 13, in tester
    %(str(fn), str(wantResult), str(gotResult)))
test.support.TestFailed: ntpath.relpath("a") should return: a but
returned: ..\a

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components: Library (Lib), Tests
messages: 72030
nosy: pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_ntpath.test_relpath fails when launched from a different Windows drive
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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