#8759: Fixed user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
index 1e12a45..88722de 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
from sysconfig import (get_paths, get_platform, get_config_vars,
get_path, get_path_names, _INSTALL_SCHEMES,
_get_default_scheme, _expand_vars,
- get_scheme_names)
+ get_scheme_names, get_config_var)
class TestSysConfig(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -255,6 +255,15 @@
finally:
unlink(link)
+ def test_user_similar(self):
+ # Issue 8759 : make sure the posix scheme for the users
+ # is similar to the global posix_prefix one
+ base = get_config_var('base')
+ user = get_config_var('userbase')
+ for name in ('stdlib', 'platstdlib', 'purelib', 'platlib'):
+ global_path = get_path(name, 'posix_prefix')
+ user_path = get_path(name, 'posix_user')
+ self.assertEquals(user_path, global_path.replace(base, user))
def test_main():
run_unittest(TestSysConfig)