[Python-Dev] posixpath.normpath

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:44:01PM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:

> a) posixpath.normpath("..") 

'..'.

> b) posixpath.normpath("/..")

'/'. I *think* this is POSIXly defined, but I'm not sure. However, this is
the behaviour on all UNIX machines I've ever seen, and also in protocols
like HTTP that take a URL with forward slashes and possibly '..'s.

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