[issue6764] os.path.join should call os.path.normpath on result

[Michael Foord]

New submission from Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk>:

os.path.join has very basic behavior in the handling of '..'

>>> import os
>>> os.path.join('/foo', '..')
'/foo/..'

For some usecases (comparing paths for example) this is not useful and
you have to manually call normpath on the results:

>>> os.path.normpath(os.path.join('/foo', '..'))
'/'

Because of this code gets littered with annoyingly long chained calls
which are a pain to both read and write.

Is there any problem with join always calling normpath on it's result?

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components: Library (Lib)
keywords: easy
messages: 91877
nosy: michael.foord
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.path.join should call os.path.normpath on result
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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