[New-bugs-announce] [issue9949] os.path.realpath on Windows does not follow symbolic links

[Daniel Stutzbach]

New submission from Daniel Stutzbach <daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com>:

In Lib/ntpath.py:

# realpath is a no-op on systems without islink support
realpath = abspath


However, Windows Vista and newer support symbolic links and other Python methods support them.

(noticed this through source code inspection; haven't actually tested it)

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 117374
nosy: brian.curtin, eric.smith, jaraco, stutzbach
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: os.path.realpath on Windows does not follow symbolic links
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2

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