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[Jython-dev] os.makedirs() : should it normalize?

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

In both Jython and CPython (2.1),
    os.makedirs( "~/tmp/not/./new" )
fails, however
    os.makedirs( "~/tmp/not//new" )
succeeds.

The GNU 'mkdir' program works with either path (if --parents argument
is given, or all but last directory exist).

Should os.makedirs() call os.normalize() first, or is this supposed to
be a client responsibility?

-D

Re: [Jython-dev] os.makedirs() : should it normalize?

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:45:18PM -0500, dman wrote:
| 
| In both Jython and CPython (2.1),
|     os.makedirs( "~/tmp/not/./new" )
| fails, however
|     os.makedirs( "~/tmp/not//new" )
| succeeds.
| 
| The GNU 'mkdir' program works with either path (if --parents argument
| is given, or all but last directory exist).
| 
| Should os.makedirs() call os.normalize() first, or is this supposed to
| be a client responsibility?

Oops, it's called "os.normpath()" and it is presently missing in
javaos.py.

I'll send a patch to create os.normpath.

-D

Re: [Jython-dev] os.makedirs() : should it normalize?

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 09:00:24PM -0500, dman wrote:
| On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:45:18PM -0500, dman wrote:
 
| Oops, it's called "os.normpath()" 

| and it is presently missing in javaos.py.

Sorry,
    ... it's supposed to be -- it is in os.path, not os.

Still the question of whether or not the makedirs function should
normalize remains.

-D

Re: [Jython-dev] os.makedirs() : should it normalize?

[<bc...@wo...>]

[dman]

>In both Jython and CPython (2.1),
>    os.makedirs( "~/tmp/not/./new" )
>fails, however
>    os.makedirs( "~/tmp/not//new" )
>succeeds.
>
>The GNU 'mkdir' program works with either path (if --parents argument
>is given, or all but last directory exist).
>
>Should os.makedirs() call os.normalize() first, or is this supposed to
>be a client responsibility?

I think it is the responsibility of the program, but I don't have a
strong opinion about it.

Strangly enough, both your examples works fine for me. Both example
nicely creates a new directory below my $CWD called "~/tmp/not/new" (on
win2k and jdk14b3).

Right now our os.makedirs() function consist on a simple call to.

   File(path).mkdirs()

It just feels really good to push the whole file system semantic
nighmare over on java and forgot about it.

regards,
finn