Vedran Čačić <vedgar@gmail.com> added the comment:

First, I hope we all agree: 'C:\Windows\..\Program Files' and '/usr/../bin' == relative path

I don't agree. To me, absolute means regardless of a reference point. So, absolute path would be a path that refers to the same entity from whichever directory you reference it. And that is surely the case for these two. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39090> _______________________________________