diff -r 70831a7beb3f -r 64b5f5fa3b00 Utilities/__init__.py
--- a/Utilities/__init__.py Sat Sep 27 14:30:40 2014 +0200
+++ b/Utilities/__init__.py Sat Sep 27 15:59:38 2014 +0200
@@ -798,7 +798,87 @@
return True
return False
+
+
+def startswithPath(path, start):
+ """
+ Function to check, if a path starts with a given start path.
+ @param path path to be checked (string)
+ @param start start path (string)
+ @return flag indicating that the path starts with the given start
+ path (boolean)
+ """
+ if start:
+ if path == start:
+ return True
+ elif normcasepath(toNativeSeparators(path)).startswith(
+ normcasepath(toNativeSeparators(start + "/"))):
+ return True
+ else:
+ return False
+ else:
+ return False
+
+
+def relativePath(path, start):
+ """
+ Function to convert a file path to a path relative to a start path.
+
+ @param path file or directory name to convert (string)
+ @param start start path (string)
+ @return relative path or unchanged path, if path does not start with
+ the start path (string)
+ """
+ if startswithPath(path, start):
+ if path == start:
+ return ""
+ else:
+ return path[len(start) + 1:]
+ else:
+ return path
+
+
+def relativeUniversalPath(path, start):
+ """
+ Function to convert a file path to a path relative to a start path
+ with universal separators.
+
+ @param path file or directory name to convert (string)
+ @param start start path (string)
+ @return relative path or unchanged path, if path does not start with
+ the start path with universal separators (string)
+ """
+ return fromNativeSeparators(relativePath(path, start))
+
+
+def absolutePath(path, start):
+ """
+ Public method to convert a path relative to a start path to an
+ absolute path.
+
+ @param path file or directory name to convert (string)
+ @param start start path (string)
+ @return absolute path (string)
+ """
+ if not os.path.isabs(path):
+ path = os.path.join(start, path)
+ return path
+
+
+def absoluteUniversalPath(path, start):
+ """
+ Public method to convert a path relative to a start path with
+ universal separators to an absolute path.
+
+ @param path file or directory name to convert (string)
+ @param start start path (string)
+ @return absolute path with native separators (string)
+ """
+ if not os.path.isabs(path):
+ path = toNativeSeparators(os.path.join(start, path))
+ return path
+
def getExecutablePath(file):
"""
