Hack to make this play nicer with *old* versions of Python: os.path.abspath()
was not available in Python 1.5.1. (Yes, a user actually tried to use this
with that version of Python!)
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index 6481e93..f92cbda 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@
import tempfile
+if not hasattr(os.path, "abspath"):
+ def abspath(path):
+ """Return an absolute path."""
+ if not os.path.isabs(path):
+ path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)
+ return os.path.normpath(path)
+
+ os.path.abspath = abspath
+
+
MYDIR = os.path.abspath(sys.path[0])
TOPDIR = os.path.dirname(MYDIR)