How To Get The Cwd In A Shell-dependend Format?

Since I'm using both Windows' cmd.exe and msysgit's bash, trying to access the Windows-path output by os.getcwd() is causing Python to attempt accessing a path starting with a driv

Solution 1:

Ugly but should work unless you create an environment variable SHELL=bash for Windows:

def msysfy(dirname):
    import os
    try:
        shell = os.environ['SHELL']
    except KeyError:  # by default, cmd.exe has no SHELL variable
        shell = 'win'
    if os.path.basename(shell)=='bash' and dirname[1] == ':':
        return '/' + dirname[0].lower() + '/' + dirname[2:]
        # don't worry about the other backslashes, msys handles them
    else:
        return dirname