[Python-Dev] os.path.diff(path1, path2)

[Delaney, Timothy (Tim)]

Greg Ewing wrote:

> Matthias Andreas Benkard wrote:
> 
>> /home -> usr/home
>> /usr
>> /usr/home
>> 
>> What does os.path.diff("/home/", "/usr/") yield? "../usr/", I would
>> presume? But that's obviously wrong:
> 
> IMO, the relpath method should just work textually on
> the pathnames. It's up to the user to ensure it makes
> sense to do so, e.g. by resolving symlinks beforehand
> if necessary.

In addition, I would presume that relpath would just return the absolute
path if passed an absolute path as the second parameter.

So the above would simply return "/usr/" IMO.

Tim Delaney