[Python-ideas] reusing realpath()

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:57 +1000 Ben Finney wrote:

Antoine Pitrou writes:

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Again, why not simply improve realpath()?

Because that already does what it says it does.

So what? The behaviour of fetching the canonical name can be added to the behaviour of resolving symlinks. It wouldn't be incompatible with the current behaviour AFAICT. And it would be better than adding yet another function to our ménagerie of path-normalizing functions. We already have abspath(), normpath(), normcase(), realpath() -- all with very descriptive names as you might notice. We don't need another function. Regards Antoine.