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kushaldas at gmail

Jun 22, 2012, 10:54 AM

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A question on os.path.join in POSIX systems

Hi all,

There is a comment on posixpath.join saying "Ignore the previous parts
if a part is absolute."
Is this defined in the POSIX spec ? If yes, then can someone please
point me to a link where I can read about it ?

Kushal
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dieter at handshake

Jun 22, 2012, 11:25 AM

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Re: A question on os.path.join in POSIX systems [In reply to]

Kushal Das <kushaldas [at] gmail> 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".

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