Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > while abspath() uses getcwd() but because of POSIX.1-2008 (IEEE Std > 1003.1-2008) says os.getcwd() returns without symbolic links as well, > so os.path.abspath() == os.path.realpath() near as I can tell.
Just because getcwd() doesn't contain any symbolic links doesn't mean the rest of the path is stripped of all symlinks. > I think there should be a way in the standard library to get a logical > path, as well as a realpath(). This doesn't make sense. There could be an arbitrary number of "logical" paths pointing to a single physical one. Which one should Python choose? ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14550> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
