Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The question is what is the 'this' that may change the patch meaning. It does
not seem to me that changing '/' to '\' would do that. So I suspect 'this'
refers to 'collapsing'. If so, I suggest the entry be:
Normalize a pathname (but not the case -- use normcase for that). This
collapses redundant separators and up-level references so that A//B, A/B/,
A/./B and A/foo/../B all become A/B. This collapsing may change the meaning of
the path if it contains symbolic links! On Windows, normpath also converts
forward slashes to backward slashes.
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