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-rw-r--r--pkg_resources/__init__.py21
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index 3cbb5d19..5423af6f 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -2220,15 +2220,18 @@ register_namespace_handler(object, null_ns_handler)
def normalize_path(filename):
"""Normalize a file/dir name for comparison purposes"""
- if sys.platform == 'cygwin':
- # This results in a call to getcwd() if `filename` is relative. Contrary
- # to POSIX 2008 on Cygwin getcwd (3) contains symlink components. Using
- # os.path.abspath() works around this limitation. A fix in os.getcwd()
- # would probably better, in Cygwin even more so except that this seems
- # to be by design...
- return os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(os.path.abspath(filename)))
- else:
- return os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(filename))
+ return os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(_cygwin_patch(filename)))
+
+
+def _cygwin_patch(filename): # pragma: nocover
+ """
+ Contrary to POSIX 2008, on Cygwin, getcwd (3) contains
+ symlink components. Using
+ os.path.abspath() works around this limitation. A fix in os.getcwd()
+ would probably better, in Cygwin even more so, except
+ that this seems to be by design...
+ """
+ return os.path.abspath(filename) if sys.platform == 'cygwin' else filename
def _normalize_cached(filename, _cache={}):