> On 26 May 2020, at 18:01, BlindAnagram <blindanag...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> On 26/05/2020 17:09, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> Mats Wichmann <m...@python.org> writes:
>>> an absolute path is one that starts with the pathname separator.
>>
>> The Python Library Reference does not use the term
>> "pathname separator". It uses "directory separator"
>> (os.sep) and "filename separator" ('/' on Unix).
>>
>> On Windows:
>>
>> |>>> import pathlib
>> |>>> import os
>> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath('\\').is_absolute()
>> |False
>> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath(os.sep).is_absolute()
>> |False
>> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath('/').is_absolute()
>> |False
>
> Thanks, that seems to suggest that there is an issue and that I should
> hence submit this as an issue.
Can you post the a link to the issue please?
I note that
>>> pathlib.Path('/').is_absolute()
False
>>> pathlib.Path('/').resolve().is_absolute()
True
>>>
The resolve() is required and I think should not be required.
Barry
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