Nir Soffer wrote:
> However, I found this alarming note in the docs:
>
> normpath(path)
> ...
> "It should be understood that this may change the meaning of the path
> if it contains symbolic links!"
>
> The function docstring does not contain this note:
>
> """Normalize path, eliminating double slashes, etc."""
>
> And finally, there is no test for this symbolic link problem.
>
> Anyone has a clue about this?
if BAR is a symbolic link, FOO/BAR/../DIR isn't necessarily the same
thing as FOO/DIR.
a simple example:
$ ln -s /etc etc
$ ls -ld etc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fredrik fredrik 4 Dec 2 23:22 etc -> /etc
$ etc/../usr/local/bin/python2.4
Python 2.4.1 (#1, Sep 12 2005, 19:35:02)
...
>>> import os
>>> os.path.normpath("etc/../usr/local/bin/python2.4")
'usr/local/bin/python2.4'
>>> <control-D>
$ usr/local/bin/python2.4
-bash: usr/local/bin/python2.4: No such file or directory
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