[ python-Bugs-1475009 ] Document os.path.join oddity on Windows

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Bugs item #1475009, was opened at 2006-04-23 13:08
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Miki Tebeka (tebeka)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Document os.path.join oddity on Windows

Initial Comment:
Please document that on windows
os.path.join("m:\\noo", "\\woo") => '\\woo'

>From reading the code I see that this is intetional,
however it need to be documented.


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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-04-28 16:37

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The documentation was already there. I added a parenthetical
note that on Windows, the drive letter is also thrown away.
(rev. 45781, 45782)

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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2006-04-23 17:38

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Noting that there's nothing special about Windows here:

>>> import posixpath
>>> posixpath.join('/noo', '/woo')
'/woo'


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