Patch for bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1293
The patch doesn't do the whole name mangling mambo jambo on purpose. MS sure does some weird things and I don't feel like reimplementing ntpath.normpath in C. If the user does deliberately something stupid he is on his own.
TODO: Backport to 2.6 (maybe 2.5?) and document that users should only do sys.path.append(os.path.normpath(somepath)) if they want to be on the safe side.
diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 289a1fb..d2922e9 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -2922,6 +2922,7 @@
NullImporter_init(NullImporter *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
{
char *path;
+ Py_ssize_t pathlen;
if (!_PyArg_NoKeywords("NullImporter()", kwds))
return -1;
@@ -2930,14 +2931,31 @@
&path))
return -1;
- if (strlen(path) == 0) {
+ pathlen = strlen(path);
+ if (pathlen == 0) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ImportError, "empty pathname");
return -1;
} else {
struct stat statbuf;
int rv;
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+ /* MS Windows' stat chokes on paths like C:\\path\\. Try to
+ * recover *one* time by stripping of a trailing slash or
+ * back slash. http://bugs.python.org/issue1293
+ */
rv = stat(path, &statbuf);
+ if (rv != 0 && pathlen <= MAXPATHLEN &&
+ (path[pathlen-1] == '/' || path[pathlen-1] == '\\')) {
+ char mangled[MAXPATHLEN+1];
+
+ strcpy(mangled, path);
+ mangled[pathlen-1] = '\0';
+ rv = stat(mangled, &statbuf);
+ }
+#else
+ rv = stat(path, &statbuf);
+#endif
if (rv == 0) {
/* it exists */
if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode)) {