On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 09:07:58AM -0500, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
>  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\util.py", line 87, in convert_path
>    if pathname[0] == '/':
>IndexError: string index out of range

On the other hand, Distutils's util.convert_path() is broken for a
path that's just the empty string.  I'll submit a Python fix, too.

--amk