Kushal Das <kushal...@gmail.com> writes: > There is a comment on posixpath.join saying "Ignore the previous parts > if a part is absolute."
It means: "join(something, abspath) == abspath" whenever "abspath" is an absolute path. > Is this defined in the POSIX spec ? If yes, then can someone please > point me to a link where I can read about it ? It has nothing to do with POSIX. It just describes a senseful behavior of "join". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list