Windows: home directory expansion test fails

[jdmarch]

$ iptest IPython.utils
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FAIL: test_get_ipython_dir_7, test home directory expansion on IPYTHONDIR
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nose\case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "c:\documents and settings\jdm\ipython\IPython\utils\tests\test_path.py", line 293, in test_get_ipython_dir_7
    nt.assert_equal(ipdir, os.path.join(home_dir, 'somewhere'))
AssertionError: u'c:\\Documents and Settings\\JDM\\somewhere' != 'c:/Documents and Settings/JDM\\somewhere'
    "u'c:\\\\Documents and Settings\\\\JDM\\\\somewhere' != 'c:/Documents and Settings/JDM\\\\somewhere'" = '%s != %s' % (safe_repr(u'c
:\\Documents and Settings\\JDM\\somewhere'), safe_repr('c:/Documents and Settings/JDM\\somewhere'))
    "u'c:\\\\Documents and Settings\\\\JDM\\\\somewhere' != 'c:/Documents and Settings/JDM\\\\somewhere'" = self._formatMessage("u'c:\\
\\Documents and Settings\\\\JDM\\\\somewhere' != 'c:/Documents and Settings/JDM\\\\somewhere'", "u'c:\\\\Documents and Settings\\\\JDM\
\\\somewhere' != 'c:/Documents and Settings/JDM\\\\somewhere'")
>>  raise self.failureException("u'c:\\\\Documents and Settings\\\\JDM\\\\somewhere' != 'c:/Documents and Settings/JDM\\\\somewhere'")


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[jdmarch]

Sorry, I'm getting rote here. This is a path separator issue, not a space issue. Re-titling.

[minrk]

Were you running the test suite in git-bash, by any chance?

[jdmarch]

I was, thanks for catching the omission. The test runs fine in cmd.exe, with or without the PR.

[minrk]

Ok. I think git-bash sets HOME with unix-style slashes, which causes this weirdness.

[fperez]

Fix in #2020 looks clean, merging now...