From fd3aee4fcbde21e71b3fff524ca1394e92156701 2014-12-17 19:38:45
From: Scott Sanderson <scoutoss@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-12-17 19:38:45
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: Sanitize to_path in ContentsManager.copy.

Without this, one of the test cases in `test_copy` attempts a copy to a
directory that starts with a leading double-slash.

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diff --git a/IPython/html/services/contents/manager.py b/IPython/html/services/contents/manager.py
index c618944..06edfcc 100644
--- a/IPython/html/services/contents/manager.py
+++ b/IPython/html/services/contents/manager.py
@@ -347,6 +347,9 @@ class ContentsManager(LoggingConfigurable):
         from_path must be a full path to a file.
         """
         path = from_path.strip('/')
+        if to_path is not None:
+            to_path = to_path.strip('/')
+
         if '/' in path:
             from_dir, from_name = path.rsplit('/', 1)
         else: