New submission from Vladimir Rutsky <rutsky.vladi...@gmail.com>: This is code from recent trace.py (http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release27-maint/Lib/trace.py?view=markup):
trace.py:169: # Ignore a file when it contains one of the ignorable paths for d in self._dirs: # The '+ os.sep' is to ensure that d is a parent directory, # as compared to cases like: # d = "/usr/local" # filename = "/usr/local.py" # or # d = "/usr/local.py" # filename = "/usr/local.py" if filename.startswith(d + os.sep): self._ignore[modulename] = 1 return 1 Directories comparison like "filename.startswith(d + os.sep)" works incorrect on case-insensitive filesystems (such as NTFS on Windows). This leads to confusing results on Windows: python trace.py --ignore-dir='$prefix' -t test.py or python trace.py --ignore-dir C:\Python26\Lib -t test.py shows all calls from standard library, but this one doesn't: python trace.py --ignore-dir=c:\python26\lib -t test.py See attached test files and log for details. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: test.py messages: 126101 nosy: vrutsky priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: trace module compares directories as strings (--ignore-dir) versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20368/test.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10896> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com