Meador Inge <mead...@gmail.com> added the comment: > we don’t know what people do with symlinks and relative paths out > there, so I’d prefer adding a safe special case* rather than always > calling abspath. What do you think?
Éric, I agree. I didn't know about the strange symlink + relative path behavior with 'os.path.normpath', but [1] cleared me up. With that in mind the special casing is OK. I have attached an updated patch with a unit test. Also, this is not an issue for Python 2.7. The 2.7 implementation assumes any directories mentioned in the path already exist. So, I removed 2.7 from the affected versions. [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058452.html ---------- versions: -Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23789/issue12618-1.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12618> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
