March 11, 2017
5:17 a.m.
Eryk Sun added the comment: resolve() can't replace absolute(). They serve different purposes. Sometimes one wants an absolute path, but without resolving symbolic links. absolute() processes a path as a string, which will continue to be true if it's updated to call nt._getfullpathname (GetFullPathName) on Windows. OTOH, resolve() can outright fail on Windows. I can write up a list of examples (I can think of 5 or 6 unhandled error codes), but it's not directly relevant to this issue. ---------- nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29688> _______________________________________