commit 42f5332f6de308c1d9b8f4df076aacf87d23ac11
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Thu Nov 29 02:50:15 2001 +0000
committer Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> Thu Nov 29 02:50:15 2001 +0000
tree 216c174cda7bfeab5a48a84ad59eba8881ccdfe7
parent d15f8bbe320811d8edaf869c91308679d246693f

canonic(): don't use abspath() for filenames looking like <...>; this
fixes the problem reported in SF bug #477023 (Jonathan Mark): "pdb:
unexpected path confuses Emacs".

Lib/bdb.py

diff --git a/Lib/bdb.py b/Lib/bdb.py
index 7326a72..29cba80 100644
--- a/Lib/bdb.py
+++ b/Lib/bdb.py
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
         self.fncache = {}
 
     def canonic(self, filename):
+        if filename == "<" + filename[1:-1] + ">":
+            return filename
         canonic = self.fncache.get(filename)
         if not canonic:
             canonic = os.path.abspath(filename)