Re: [Python-Dev] The desired behaviour for resolve() when the path doesn't exist

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:26:20 +0200 Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

Behavior of --canonicalize-existing can be derived from --canonicalize, just check that resulting patch exists. But other modes can't be derived from --canonicalize-existing.

def resolve_existing(path): path = path.resolve() if not path.exists(): raise FileNotFoundError(errno.ENOENT, 'No such file or directory: %r' % str(path)) return path

So perhaps two main modes should be --canonicalize (default) and --canonicalize-missing (with missing=True)?

That sounds reasonable. And I think strict should be the default. Regards Antoine.