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Diffstat (limited to 'pym/portage_util.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | pym/portage_util.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage_util.py b/pym/portage_util.py index 79babe05c..0449b614f 100644 --- a/pym/portage_util.py +++ b/pym/portage_util.py @@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ def writemsg_stdout(mystr,noiselevel=0): """Prints messages stdout based on the noiselimit setting""" writemsg(mystr, noiselevel=noiselevel, fd=sys.stdout) +def normalize_path(mypath): + if mypath.startswith(os.path.sep): + # posixpath.normpath collapses 3 or more leading slashes to just 1. + return os.path.normpath(2*os.path.sep + mypath) + else: + return os.path.normpath(mypath) + def grabfile(myfilename, compat_level=0, recursive=0): """This function grabs the lines in a file, normalizes whitespace and returns lines in a list; if a line begins with a #, it is ignored, as are empty lines""" |