On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Peter Bienstman wrote:

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Hi,

I'm having trouble in getting Windows absolute paths like e.g d:\foo to work in distutils. They alway seem to be treated as a relative path...

distutils uses Unix path names internally, i.e. / instead of \.

Actually, it's not that simple. The following works, because setup.py lives in d:\bar ../foo None of these work: D:/foo /D:/foo //D:/foo D:\foo \D:\foo \\D:\foo Peter

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Actually, it's not that simple.

The following works, because setup.py lives in d:\bar

../foo

None of these work:

D:/foo /D:/foo //D:/foo D:\foo \D:\foo \\D:\foo

Why would you want to put drive letters into the paths ?

Not in this example, but in my real-world scenario the files are on a different drive than setup.py

BTW, would '../d:/foo' work ?

No luck..

and if not, what's the error message you get ?

'File does not exist or is not a regular file'. I think 'd:/foo' gets interpreted as './d:/foo', which is why the file cannot be found. Peter

Have you tried double / or \ after the drive letter:

D:\\foo D://foo

D://foo doesn't work, but D:\\foo works! Thanks! Peter