Path and File Examples

Local path names:

/local/path/name

Remote path names in case of RFS - Remote Filesystem:

//hostname/local/path/name

Valid entries - which are equal:

/local/path/name
///local///path///name
/////local/path///name
/local/foo/../path/bar/../name
/local/foo/../path/bar/../../what/the/heck/../../../name

Same on Windows including the python abstraction by os.path.normpath:

/local/path/name
///local///path///name
/////local/path///name
/local/foo/../path/bar/../name
/local/foo/../path/bar/../../what/the/heck/../../../name

\local\path\name
...

The following entries are either equal or not as depicted:

/local/path/name == /local//path//name
/local/path/name != //local//path//name

The following URI subset is supported:

file://top/x/y
file:///top/x/y
file:////top/x/y
file://///top/x/y

For code examples refer to:

• UseCases
• tests

Application examples

The functions are initially designed for the internal requirements based on the authors own projects. Typical requirements are here generic test case definitions as drop-in units.

• bash-core - https://sourceforge.net/projects/bash-core/

  Location independent normalization of test cases for environments with various PATH calculations.

• bash-core-library - https://sourceforge.net/projects/bashcorelib/

  Location independent normalization of testcases for environments with various PATH calculations.

• ePyUnit - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/epyunit

  Location independent normalization of paths for drop-in testcases.

• jsondata - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsondata

  Location independent normalization of paths for drop-in testcases.

• jsoncompute - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsoncompute

  Location independent normalization of paths for drop-in testcases.

• ctysNG - https://sourceforge.net/projects/ctysng/

  Various path calculations on a distributed modular platform.