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Author	eryksun
Recipients	Chaitanya Mannem, eric.smith, eryksun, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2016-02-24.18:21:34
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Message-id	<1456338094.28.0.865562051818.issue26429@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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os.path.dirname is documented as the first element of os.path.split, which in turn is documented to be empty when there's no slash in the path. An empty string is treated as the current directory by os.path.abspath. This is in line with an empty element in the PATH environment variable. Also, Python's sys.path uses an empty string for the current directory. If you want a dot for display and logging purposes, normalize via os.path.normpath: >>> os.path.normpath('') '.'

os.path.dirname is documented as the first element of os.path.split, which in turn is documented to be empty when there's no slash in the path. 

An empty string is treated as the current directory by os.path.abspath. This is in line with an empty element in the PATH environment variable. Also, Python's sys.path uses an empty string for the current directory. If you want a dot for display and logging purposes, normalize via os.path.normpath:

    >>> os.path.normpath('')
    '.'

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-02-24 18:21:34	eryksun	set	recipients: + eryksun, eric.smith, serhiy.storchaka, Chaitanya Mannem
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