[issue11252] Handling statement OR assignment continuation '\' on Win32 platform

2011-02-24 Thread Suresh Kalkunte
Suresh Kalkunte added the comment: Thanks for the education (hopefully a slight detour for you 8-). I included '/' to convey uniform behavior across platforms. I will take it that the difference in what os.path.split() returns on Win32 vs. Linux is not a bug in Python since its W

[issue11252] Handling statement OR assignment continuation '\' on Win32 platform

2011-02-21 Thread Suresh Kalkunte
Suresh Kalkunte added the comment: lukasz.langa, confirming the difference in return values for glob.glob() on Win32/Cygwin vs. Linux as the following results show: F1() ret_val1 F2(ret_val1) ret_val2 -- \\\ Cygwin

[issue11252] Handling statement OR assignment continuation '\' on Win32 platform

2011-02-21 Thread Suresh Kalkunte
Suresh Kalkunte added the comment: Yes, the easier fix is to change build.conf file to not use '\'. However, > on Linux `glob.glob('\\')` == `[]` so nothing is actually added. > OTOH on Windows `glob.glob('\\')` == `['\\']` is more defi

[issue11252] Handling statement OR assignment continuation '\' on Win32 platform

2011-02-20 Thread Suresh Kalkunte
Suresh Kalkunte added the comment: If the defect was with the script, the failure to bypass the '\' notation would have to be true on Redhat Linux. Since build.conf with '\' notation gets parsed without errors on Redhat Linux, I am under the impression the parsing per

[issue11252] Handling statement OR assignment continuation '\' on Win32 platform

2011-02-19 Thread Suresh Kalkunte
New submission from Suresh Kalkunte : Referring to URL for files used to build the Apache Portable Runtime Utilities library using Python 2.7.1(AMD64) or 2.6.5(Cygwin) on a Win32 system (Windows 7), when apr/build/gen-build.py (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr/branches/1.4.x/build/gen