Re: Fixing debian bug 605185

Oleg Broytman <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Nov 2011 18:41:07 +0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.python.sqlobject
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:31:43PM +0200, Neil Muller wrote:
> On 1 November 2011 16:07, Oleg Broytman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   Strange syntax ${PYTHONPATH:+:$PYTHONPATH} . Are you sure? Shouldn't
> > it be just ${PYTHONPATH:+$PYTHONPATH} ?
> 
> It does look a little strange, but it is correct.
> 
> It's the POSIX shell alternate value syntax with ":$PYTHONPATH" as the
> alternate value. If the ':' is excluded,  there's no separator between
> $parent and $PYTHONPATH when PYTHONPATH is set, and the separator must
> only be added when PYTHONPATH is already set to fix the bug.

   Got it. Thank you!

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytman            http://phdru.name/            [email protected]
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