From 647d2fe1451b1e7cd558771fcbae3fbdce1ffcf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 06:20:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for Bug #110673: os.abspatth() now always returns
 os.getcwd() on Windows, if an empty path is specified.  It previously did not
 if an empty path was delegated to win32api.GetFullPathName())

---
 Lib/ntpath.py | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index 034694ddb00..f8334e55183 100644
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -416,8 +416,11 @@ def abspath(path):
             return normpath(path)
         abspath = _abspath
         return _abspath(path)
-    try:
-        path = win32api.GetFullPathName(path)
-    except win32api.error:
-        pass # Bad path - return unchanged.
+    if path: # Empty path must return current working directory.
+        try:
+            path = win32api.GetFullPathName(path)
+        except win32api.error:
+            pass # Bad path - return unchanged.
+    else:
+        path = os.getcwd()
     return normpath(path)