---------- Forwarded message ---------- (whoops from my phone) On Jun 21, 2012 6:32 AM, "Armin Ronacher" <armin.ronac...@active-4.com> wrote: > > Due to an user error on my part I was not using os.readlink correctly. > Since links can be relative to their location I think it would make sense > to provide an os.path.resolve helper that automatically returns the > absolute path: > > def resolve(filename): > try: > target = os.readlink(filename) > except OSError as e: > if e.errno == errno.EINVAL: > return abspath(filename) > raise > return normpath(join(dirname(filename), target)) > > The above implementation also does not fail if an entity exists but is not > a link and just returns the absolute path of the given filename in that > case. >
Does it need to be an absolute path, and what if the advantage of that? Can it returned absolute if that's what you gave it, and relative otherwise? > > Regards, > Armin > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ironfroggy%40gmail.com
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