On 29 April 2002, Andrew Kuchling said:
> 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.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that this is a Distutils bug.  For paths in
setup.py, '' should be synonymous with os.curdir.  Thanks Andrew.

        Greg