Re: [Rest2web-develop] Use of tilde as HOME indicator in paths

[Michael F. <fuz...@gm...>]

On 27/08/06, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gr...@ti...> wrote:
>
> On 2006-08-27, Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> wrote:
> > Ok, but isn't a tilde also a valid part of a path name ? (I'm
> > not Lunix user, so I don't know these things - but at least on
> > Windoze it can be a valid part of a filename.)
>
> Yes, which under Windows could be expanded to C:\documentblah
> blah\user or whatever it is.
>
> > Do you just mean (or particularly mean) in the config file ? How
> > about if paths starting with a tilde were expanded ?
>
> os.path.expanduser() only expands the tilde as first character,
> as any other implementation. Knowing this you can prefix a local
> file with `./' if it starts with tilde, though right know the
> other alternative is using full paths, which wouldn't allow tilde
> expansion anyway.


I've just fixed this.

I now do 'expanduser' (~) expansion for the paths in the config file and the
'file' keyword in restindexes.

Anywhere else ?

Fuzzyman



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