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Author	pitrou
Recipients	csawyer-yumaed, pitrou
Date	2012年04月11日.17:22:14
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> while abspath() uses getcwd() but because of POSIX.1-2008 (IEEE Std > 1003.1-2008) says os.getcwd() returns without symbolic links as well, > so os.path.abspath() == os.path.realpath() near as I can tell. Just because getcwd() doesn't contain any symbolic links doesn't mean the rest of the path is stripped of all symlinks. > I think there should be a way in the standard library to get a logical > path, as well as a realpath(). This doesn't make sense. There could be an arbitrary number of "logical" paths pointing to a single physical one. Which one should Python choose?

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> while abspath() uses getcwd() but because of POSIX.1-2008 (IEEE Std
> 1003.1-2008) says os.getcwd() returns without symbolic links as well,
> so os.path.abspath() == os.path.realpath() near as I can tell.
Just because getcwd() doesn't contain any symbolic links doesn't mean the rest of the path is stripped of all symlinks.
> I think there should be a way in the standard library to get a logical 
> path, as well as a realpath().
This doesn't make sense. There could be an arbitrary number of "logical" paths pointing to a single physical one. Which one should Python choose?

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