New submission from Totte Karlsson <tot...@gmail.com>:
Python's os.path.realpath, when used with a substed drive on the Windows
platform, don't resolve the substed path to the *real* path.
For example creating a substed drive like this:
subst z: C:\Users\Public\Desktop
and checking for the real path in python like this:
import os
myPath = "S:\\"
print("Real path of: " + myPath + " is: " + os.path.realpath(myPath) )
prints
Real path of: S:\ is: S:\
In the docs for the [subst][1] command, a substed drive is referred to as a
*virtual* drive. Virtual, suggesting something being "not real", indicates that
the Python *realpath* command is not working properly on Windows.
[1]:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst
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components: Windows
messages: 336574
nosy: Totte Karlsson, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.path.realpath on windows and substed drives
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
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<https://bugs.python.org/issue36112>
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