Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

The question is what is the 'this' that may change the patch meaning. It does 
not seem to me that changing '/' to '\' would do that. So I suspect 'this' 
refers to 'collapsing'. If so, I suggest the entry be:

    Normalize a pathname (but not the case -- use normcase for that). This 
collapses redundant separators and up-level references so that A//B, A/B/, 
A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A/B. This collapsing may change the meaning of 
the path if it contains symbolic links!  On Windows, normpath also converts 
forward slashes to backward slashes.

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nosy: +loewis, pitrou

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