On 03/05/10 14:18, Chris Rebert wrote:
Whether or not /home/baz/tmp/xxx/ exists, we know from the very structure and properties of directory paths that its parent directory is, *by definition*, /home/baz/tmp/ (just chop off everything after the second-to-last slash). I would assume this is what happens internally. How exactly this interacts with, say, moving the directory to a new location rather than deleting it, I don't know; again, it would quite likely be platform-specific.
but how does '..' get resolved in the relative path '../abc.txt'? i'm assuming python must initially use getcwd() internally to do this, and then if that fails it falls back on something else. but what is that something else? is it something that is reproducible in pure python?
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