[New-bugs-announce] [issue31468] os.path.samefile fails on windows network drive

[Daniel Sauer]

New submission from Daniel Sauer:

On my Windows network drive os.path.samefile() seems to return True regardless of input paths. In my case this results in an error trying to save checkpoints of jupyter notebooks on this drive.
I am using Windows 7, my working directory is located on a network drive that is offline-available (CSC cache).
Tracing this problem back it seems to have something to do with nt._getfinalpathname() reporting a wrong result.

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components: Windows
messages: 302170
nosy: Daniel Sauer, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.path.samefile fails on windows network drive
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5

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