Eryk Sun added the comment:
os.path.dirname is documented as the first element of os.path.split, which in
turn is documented to be empty when there's no slash in the path.
An empty string is treated as the current directory by os.path.abspath. This is
in line with an empty element in the PATH
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
This is documented behavior and changing this will break existing code (for
example see the implementation of glob.glob()).
If you need this, a workaround is simple and idiomatic: ``os.path.dirname(path)
or os.curdir``.
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Eric V. Smith added the comment:
Changing to just 3.6, since that's the only place we could change the behavior.
That said, I'd be -1 on making such a change. It would no doubt break some
existing code.
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type: -> enhancement
versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Pyth
New submission from Chaitanya Mannem:
Don't know if this is for windows compatibility or whatever but I think it
makes more sense if os.path.dirname would return "." if the file passed in was
in the current directory.
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