Issue41357
Created on 2020-07-21 10:31 by Jendrik Weise, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.
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| bpo-41537-test.py | Jeffrey.Kintscher, 2020-07-22 22:39 | script that illustrates differences between how Path.resolve(), os.path.abspath(), and os.path.realpath() handle symlinks | ||
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| PR 21596 | open | Jeffrey.Kintscher, 2020-07-23 01:08 | |
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| msg374060 - (view) | Author: Jendrik Weise (Jendrik Weise) | Date: 2020-07-21 10:31 | |
According to the table at the bottom of the pathlib documentation Path.resolve() is equivalent to os.path.abspath(path). In contrast to the latter Path.resolve() does follow symlinks though, making it more similar to os.path.realpath(path). |
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| msg374115 - (view) | Author: Jeffrey Kintscher (Jeffrey.Kintscher) * | Date: 2020-07-22 22:39 | |
I uploaded a script illustrating the differences between how Path.resolve(), os.path.abspath(), and os.path.realpath() handle symlinks. As noted by Jendrik, Path.resolve() and os.path.realpath() both resolve symlinks, while os.path.abspath() does not. The documentation needs to be updated. I will generate a pull request. Example run on the master branch: python version: 3.9.0a0 (heads/master-dirty:f69d5c6198, Jul 16 2019, 12:38:41) [Clang 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)] ---- tdir1: /var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo1 creating tdir1 tdir2: /var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo2 creating tdir2 as symlink to tdir1 Path(tdir1).resolve(): /private/var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo1 Path(tdir2).resolve(): /private/var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo1 os.path.abspath(tdir1): /var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo1 os.path.abspath(tdir2): /var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo2 os.path.realpath(tdir1): /private/var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo1 os.path.realpath(tdir2): /private/var/folders/w7/mxt827716xs7_3wbk3mqwd3h0000gn/T/tmpyj7juuca/foo1 |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:59:33 | admin | set | github: 85529 |
| 2020-07-23 01:08:11 | Jeffrey.Kintscher | set | keywords:
+ patch stage: patch review pull_requests: + pull_request20735 |
| 2020-07-22 22:39:39 | Jeffrey.Kintscher | set | files:
+ bpo-41537-test.py messages: + msg374115 |
| 2020-07-22 21:12:12 | Jeffrey.Kintscher | set | nosy:
+ Jeffrey.Kintscher |
| 2020-07-21 10:31:29 | Jendrik Weise | create | |