New submission from Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk:
os.path.join has very basic behavior in the handling of '..'
import os
os.path.join('/foo', '..')
'/foo/..'
For some usecases (comparing paths for example) this is not useful and
you have to manually call normpath on the results:
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
Is there any problem with join always calling normpath on it's result?
Yes. If /usr/local/bin was a symlink to /net/x86, then
/usr/local/bin/../lib might not be /usr/local/lib, but /net/lib. So
calling normpath in the presence of symlinks
Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk added the comment:
Damn. :-)
Detecting the case where the normpath'd location is the same means
hitting the filesystem - and the current version just does string
manipulation so it doesn't seem like an acceptable change.
Still, compared to other languages
