From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:10:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Hack to make this play nicer with *old* versions of Python: os.path.abspath()
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Hack to make this play nicer with *old* versions of Python: os.path.abspath()
was not available in Python 1.5.1.  (Yes, a user actually tried to use this
with that version of Python!)
---

diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index 6481e93e2bb5..f92cbda1aae4 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ import sys
 import tempfile
 
 
+if not hasattr(os.path, "abspath"):
+    def abspath(path):
+        """Return an absolute path."""
+        if not os.path.isabs(path):
+            path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)
+        return os.path.normpath(path)
+
+    os.path.abspath = abspath
+
+
 MYDIR = os.path.abspath(sys.path[0])
 TOPDIR = os.path.dirname(MYDIR)