A question on os.path.join in POSIX systems

2012-06-22 Thread Kushal Das
Hi all, There is a comment on posixpath.join saying Ignore the previous parts if a part is absolute. Is this defined in the POSIX spec ? If yes, then can someone please point me to a link where I can read about it ? Kushal -- http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in --

Re: A question on os.path.join in POSIX systems

2012-06-22 Thread Dieter Maurer
Kushal Das kushal...@gmail.com writes: There is a comment on posixpath.join saying Ignore the previous parts if a part is absolute. It means: join(something, abspath) == abspath whenever abspath is an absolute path. Is this defined in the POSIX spec ? If yes, then can someone please point