[issue44452] Allow paths to be joined without worrying about a leading slash

lutecki added the comment: So how this should work? I'm testing this simple example on Windows: a = Path("/a/b") b = Path("c/d") and b / a gives me WindowsPath('/a/b'). So I'm like "ok, a seems like absolute, I will test for that" but

[issue38793] pathlib.Path.resolve(strict=False) strips final path components

New submission from lutecki : When a directory doesn't exist, the resolve() method trims everything except the first component (a doesn't exist here): import pathlib p = pathlib.Path(".", "a", "b", "c") p WindowsPath('a/b/c') p.r