On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt@gmail.com> wrote:
> If it intended that setting :mkdirp yes should break tangling with 'directory-free' file names?
>
> I.e., should
> #############
> #+TITLE: test
> #+BEGIN_SRC python :mkdirp yes :tangle test.py
> print 1+2
> #+END_SRC
> ###############
>
> tangle without error?
>
> It currently doesn't because (file-name-directory "test.py"), which is nil, gets passed to make-directory, which throws an error.
>
> The manual is ambiguous, stating only that the arg to :tangle is interpreted as a path. A strict reading says this shouldn't work, regardless of :mkdirp, since we're not giving a path, but I think the "understood ./" of :mkdirp no is reasonable.
>

Patch attached. Should apply cleanly against master and maint.

Michael