Sylwester Warecki <sware...@cox.net> added the comment: Marco,
Thanks for looking deeper into it. I would like to check the solution ASAP. We have really crazy dir structure which can catch a lot of the unexpected problems with paths, links, circular links etc. Should I expect the new version to generate the exception as you suggested? Best Regards, Sywlester Warecki Marco Buccini wrote: > Marco Buccini <marcu...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > I've just found a similar bug: > http://bugs.python.org/issue1646838 > > However, does os.path.realpath's behavior have to be as the one > specified by the POSIX standard ( > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/realpath.3.html )? > If we wanted to follow the standard, we should break the > retro-compatibility, since we should raise an exception in the case the > path passed as argument doesn't exist. > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue6975> > _______________________________________ > > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6975> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com