Ok thanks for the explanation. BTW
My name is Michel and not Michael! On Jun 5, 3:54 pm, Kate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > Thanks for the URL. (Alternately, you could have told me to look > in the > > maxima.console() works but not maxima.interact() > > thread.) > > I do not have a problem with William's fix. > > To explain why strip_automount_prefix() is necessary, some > computer networks only mount directories "on demand". So for > example, on one network I see > > /u/kate > > whereas the absolute path is > > /automount/u/kate > > By the way, the word "automount" could be anything and is > under system administrator control. So strip_automount_prefix() > just removes this prefix that os.path.abspath() shows. > > Nick Alexander suggests using os.path.realpath or os.path.normpath. > Neither work on this network, and so I suspect those functions are > not portable. > > Kate > > On Jun 5, 9:16 am, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This one! > > > Hope the URL works. > > >http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/ea56d4... > > > Michel > > > On Jun 5, 2:46 pm, Kate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Michael, > > > > Which thread? > > > > Kate > > > > On Jun 4, 2:04 pm, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > William already posted a patch to this in another thread! > > > > > On Jun 4, 7:39 pm, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > PS. Strictly speaking one should use os.path.separator instead of > > > > > > "/" :-) > > > > > > Perhaps os.path.realpath and os.path.normpath are even better? I > > > > > think Kate Minola will have to patch this, because such automounted > > > > > paths are rare. > > > > > > Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
