On Jun 16, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: >> There's a similar issue in that if sys.prefix contains a colon, >> Python is also busted: >> http://python.org/sf/1507224 >> Of course, that's not a Windows issue, but it is everywhere else. >> The offending code in that case is Modules/getpath.c, > > Since it has to do with the definition of Py_GetPath as returning a > single string that is really a DELIM separated list of strings, > where DELIM is defined by the current platform (';' on Windows, ':' > everywhere else), this seems more like a platform problem than a > Python problem, though - you can't have directories containing a > colon as an entry in PATH or PYTHONPATH either. It's not really > Python's fault that the platform defines a legal filename character > as the delimiter for path entries. > > The only real alternative I can see is to normalise Py_GetPath to > always return a ';' delimited list of strings, regardless of > platform, and update PySys_SetPath accordingly. That'd cause > potential compatibility problems for embedded interpreters, though. > > I guess we could create a Py_GetPathEx and a PySys_SetPathEx that > accepted the delimeters as arguments, and change the call in > pythonrun.c from: > > PySys_SetPath(Py_GetPath()) > > to: > > PySys_SetPathEx(Py_GetPathEx(';'), ';') > > (still an incompatible change, but an easier to manage one since > you can easily provide different behavior for earlier versions of > Python)
No, that doesn't fix anything at all. The right solution is not to provide for a different delimiter, but allow for a list (probably too early for PyObject* though) or array of some kind (e.g. int argc, char **argv). -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
