Re: small code smell

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:46:32PM +0200, Tim Hemel wrote:
> 
> I'll give it a shot and report back the result. I think most of the os
> dependent code can be refactored out into nice functions. I see a lot of
> long routines in Util.py which work on filenames, I'll have a look at those
> as well. It seems that a lot of the operations in Util.py would fit nicely
> into an OperatingSystem class by themselves.

Here's one that can perhaps be made a lot simpler, by borrowing someone else's
code:

shorten_name in Util.py

A similar function is described in the Python Cookbook:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/208993

periperi(116):~/programs> python relpath.py
from /a/b/c/d to /a/b/c1/d1  ->  ../../c1/d1
from /foo/bdir/foo.o to /foo/test  ->  ../../test
from /foo/test to /foo/bdir/foo.o  ->  ../bdir/foo.o

The functions do not work with . and .. in the filenames, but that can be
solved by always normalizing the pathnames.


Tim

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