practracker: Normalize filesystem paths across Windows and Posix.

This was causing issues because the exceptions file is written using Posix
paths, whereas practracker in Windows was trying to match Windows paths ("\"
instead of "/").

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/maint/practracker/problem.py b/scripts/maint/practracker/problem.py
index 2330098ef3..00e029d1c4 100644
--- a/scripts/maint/practracker/problem.py
+++ b/scripts/maint/practracker/problem.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ problem is worse than a registered exception so that it only warns when things
 get worse.
 """
 
+import os.path
+
 class ProblemVault(object):
     """
     Singleton where we store the various new problems we
@@ -70,7 +72,10 @@ class Problem(object):
 
     def key(self):
         """Generate a unique key that describes this problem that can be used as a dictionary key"""
-        return "%s:%s" % (self.problem_location, self.problem_type)
+        # Problem location is a filesystem path, so we need to normalize this
+        # across platforms otherwise same paths are not gonna match.
+        canonical_location = os.path.normcase(self.problem_location)
+        return "%s:%s" % (canonical_location, self.problem_type)
 
     def __str__(self):
         return "problem %s %s %s" % (self.problem_type, self.problem_location, self.metric_value)