Bugs item #1433667, was opened at 2006-02-17 17:03
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Doug Fort (dougfort)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.path.expandvars sometimes doesn't expand $HOSTNAME
Initial Comment:
$ echo "$HOSTNAME"
c0a80165.tipt.aol.com
$ /usr/local/bin/python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Dec 30 2005, 11:14:42)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.expandvars("$HOME")
'/Users/dougfort'
>>> os.path.expandvars("$HOSTNAME")
'$HOSTNAME'
>>>
arthurformat-d09:arthur$ echo $HOSTNAME
arthurformat-d09.ats.aol.com
arthurformat-d09:arthur$ /cm/tools/bin/python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jul 28 2004, 14:55:53)
[GCC 3.3.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.expandvars("$HOME")
'/opt/aol/production/arthur'
>>> os.path.expandvars("$HOSTNAME")
'arthurformat-d09.ats.aol.com'
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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (birkenfeld)
Date: 2006-02-17 21:50
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Closing as requested.
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Comment By: Doug Fort (dougfort)
Date: 2006-02-17 21:11
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It looks like posixpath.py uses os.environ to resolve
environment variables. That makes sense. On my OS X 10.4
Python 2.4.2, HOSTNAME does not appear in os.environ. There
must be some shell gimmick to resolve it from the command line.
I originally experienced this error on RedHat Enterprise
Linux. I'm unable to reproduce it in the interpreteer. The
process experiencing the error is launched from our client's
version of init. I suspect it just isn't getting the
HOSTNAME environment variable passed to it.
So in short, os.expandvars works as designed. I apologize
for submitting the bug without checking more throughly.
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Comment By: neurogeek (neurogeek)
Date: 2006-02-17 20:20
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No problem for me in a Gentoo box in python 2.3.4 nor python
2.4.2
Is the problem persistent? could you give some meore info on
this?
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Comment By: Georg Brandl (birkenfeld)
Date: 2006-02-17 19:13
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It might be good if you explain what the differences between
the two snippets are, environment-wise.
The first question that comes to mind is: is $HOSTNAME
exported in the first shell?
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