Brad Larsen added the comment: @eryksun, you are right! The output *is* an absolute path as far as `os.path.isabs` is concerned.
@ned.deily, you are right about my example --- I transcribed it wrong, and it should be `-c`. The system in question is not a Mac OS system, but a Linux system with newer Python versions than what come with the system installed to /opt/local. These are compiled from source, but without any modifications. I'm commenting here because I'm seeing the `test_sys` test from the regression suite fail in a slightly modified version of Python that ships with a product. In particular, in Lib/test/test_sys.py around line 640, we have this: @unittest.skipIf(sys.base_prefix != sys.prefix, 'Test is not venv-compatible') def test_executable(self): # sys.executable should be absolute self.assertEqual(os.path.abspath(sys.executable), sys.executable) Yes, /opt/local/bin/../bin/python3.5 is an absolute path as far as `os.path.isabs` is concerned, but `os.path.abspath('/opt/local/bin/../bin/python3.5')` gives '/opt/local/bin/python3.5', and the test fails. So maybe the documentation is fine but the test is wrong? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13402> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com