[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/inst - setup.py:1.1.2.2

[Guido van Rossum]

> You probably want to test for absence of os.path.abspath rather than
> Win32.  Also, a better fallback is this:
> 
>   def abspath(path):
>       if not os.path.isabs(path):
>           return os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)

Actually, it should call os.path.normpath() on the result in either
case.

But since ChrisM retracted the change, that's a theoretical
improvement only. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)