Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> When running a VirtualBox Windows 7 guest on Linux I have found > that os.path.samefile() returns False when the filenames are the > same, e.g., > > f = r'V:\pdfs\boson1.pdf' > same = os.path.samefile(f, f) > print(same) # expected True; got False genericpath.samefile is unrelated to ntpath.normcase. It's based on comparing the st_dev and st_ino values from the os.stat result of each file. There are known problems with relying solely on the Windows implementation of os.stat for this. Please create a new issue to add your case to the list. Include details about the local volume or UNC share that's mounted as drive V:. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue4198> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
