[issue43810] os.path.abspath returns invalid path (resolves symbolic link)

2021-04-13 Thread Rene Visser
Rene Visser added the comment: Thanks Eryk for your fast response. Apparently I somehow skipped the remark about symbolic links in combination with abspath. Thank you for pointing this out and apologies for wasting some of your time!! Best wishes, Rene Visser On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:40 AM

[issue43810] os.path.abspath returns invalid path (resolves symbolic link)

2021-04-11 Thread Rene Visser
New submission from Rene Visser : According to the python documentation os.path.abspath() does *not* resolve symbolic links. This however does not always seem to be true causing an invalid path return by abspath. This could potentially be exploited to crash python applications. Example for