Rene Visser <renevis...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thanks Eryk for your fast response. Apparently I somehow skipped the remark about symbolic links in combination with abspath. Thank you for pointing this out and apologies for wasting some of your time!! Best wishes, Rene Visser
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:40 AM Eryk Sun <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > In POSIX, os.path.abspath(p) is normpath(join(os.getcwd(), p)). normpath() > doesn't touch the filesystem, and it's documented that its "string > manipulation may change the meaning of a path that contains symbolic > links". You can use os.path.realpath() to resolve symbolic links in a path. > > ---------- > nosy: +eryksun > resolution: -> not a bug > stage: -> resolved > status: open -> closed > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue43810> > _______________________________________ > -- ------------------------------------------------------- René Visser Stuttgart, Germany email: renevis...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43810> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
