On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:39 AM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, March 11, 2011 10:39:18 AM UTC-8, kcrisman wrote: >> >> > If you do, then I bet that the problem is the double slash. In fact, we >> > just ran into this same sort of problem when working on the new jmol >> > going into Sage---the temporary directory has a double-slash, so it is >> > confusing where exactly that temp directory is. >> >> Incidentally, I've seen a lot of other places where os.path.join or >> whatever is not used, instead "%s/foo"%directory which gives the >> double slash. One might want to grep for that sort of thing if this >> causes lots of problems. What is the difference between single and >> double slash, exactly? (Other than the number of slashes.) > > According to section 3.266 in the IEEE/Open Group standards for Unix, > > <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html> > > "Multiple successive slashes are considered to be the same as one slash."
Yes, I think the double slashes are a red herring, though that does look like an atypical filesystem. Can you try setting DOT_SAGE to somewhere local and seeing if it works? - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
