[oe-commits] Chris Larson : oe.path.relative: switch to a different appraoch

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Module: openembedded.git
Branch: org.openembedded.dev
Commit: 5c923fd35c369bae929fc0e110121abeaffab493
URL:    http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git&a=commit;h=5c923fd35c369bae929fc0e110121abeaffab493

Author: Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 18 20:02:21 2010 -0700

oe.path.relative: switch to a different appraoch

Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com>

---

 lib/oe/path.py |   35 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/oe/path.py b/lib/oe/path.py
index 48c4b9b..8433ee1 100644
--- a/lib/oe/path.py
+++ b/lib/oe/path.py
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 def join(*paths):
     """Like os.path.join but doesn't treat absolute RHS specially"""
-    import os.path
-    return os.path.normpath("/".join(paths))
+    from os import sep
+    from os.path import normpath
 
-def relative(src, dest):
-    """ Return a relative path from src to dest.
+    return normpath(sep.join(paths))
+
+def relative(src, dest=None):
+    """ Return a relative path from src to dest(default=cwd).
 
     >>> relative("/usr/bin", "/tmp/foo/bar")
     ../../tmp/foo/bar
@@ -15,25 +17,20 @@ def relative(src, dest):
     >>> relative("/tmp", "/tmp/foo/bar")
     foo/bar
     """
-    import os.path
+    if dest is None:
+        dest = getcwd()
 
     if hasattr(os.path, "relpath"):
         return os.path.relpath(dest, src)
     else:
-        destlist = os.path.normpath(dest).split(os.path.sep)
-        srclist = os.path.normpath(src).split(os.path.sep)
-
-        # Find common section of the path
-        common = os.path.commonprefix([destlist, srclist])
-        commonlen = len(common)
-
-        # Climb back to the point where they differentiate
-        relpath = [ pardir ] * (len(srclist) - commonlen)
-        if commonlen < len(destlist):
-            # Add remaining portion
-            relpath += destlist[commonlen:]
-
-        return sep.join(relpath)
+        from os import getcwd, sep
+        from os.path import abspath, normpath
+
+        srclist = abspath(src).split(sep)
+        destlist = abspath(dest).split(sep)
+        loc = [spath == dpath for spath, dpath in zip(srclist, destlist)].index(False)
+        rellist = ([ ".." ] * (len(srclist) - loc)) + destlist[loc:]
+        return sep.join(rellist)
 
 def format_display(path, metadata):
     """ Prepare a path for display to the user. """