Normalize paths.

This fixes differences between Unix and Windows paths, and makes references
to the user's home directory more portable.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mgizapp/scripts/merge_alignment.py b/mgizapp/scripts/merge_alignment.py
index f38feee..a1b7e90 100755
--- a/mgizapp/scripts/merge_alignment.py
+++ b/mgizapp/scripts/merge_alignment.py
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ import codecs
 import io
 import os
 
+def normalize_path(path):
+    path = path.replace('\\', os.sep).replace('/', os.sep)
+    path = os.path.expanduser(path)
+    path = os.path.abspath(path)
+    return path
+
+
 if sys.version_info < (3,0,0):
 	sys.stdin = codecs.getreader('UTF-8')(sys.stdin)
 	sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('UTF-8')(sys.stdout)
@@ -30,7 +37,7 @@ sents = [];
 done = [];
 
 for i in range(1,len(sys.argv)):
-	fname = sys.argv[i].replace('\\', os.sep).replace('/', os.sep)
+	fname = normalize_path(sys.argv[i])
 	files.append(io.open(fname, "r", encoding="UTF-8"));
 	ids.append(0);
 	sents.append("");