[ python-Bugs-1707768 ] os.path.normpath changes path (chops of trailing slash)

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Bugs item #1707768, was opened at 2007-04-26 01:44
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Robert Siemer (siemer)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.path.normpath changes path (chops of trailing slash)

Initial Comment:
Hello everybody!

>>> os.path.normpath('/etc/passwd')
'/etc/passwd'


I don't know any environment at all where

a) '/etc/passwd/'
b) '/etc/passwd'

are treated the same. It clearly does not apply for the path part of http urls (this is left as an exercise for the reader).

But it also does not apply for (e.g.) Linux either:
an open() on path a) return ENOTDIR while it succeeds with b).

(assuming /etc/passwd is a file)

This is definitively not a documentation bug, as "normpath" should normalize a path and not fuck it up.


Robert

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>Comment By: Robert Siemer (siemer)
Date: 2007-04-26 01:47

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A bugreport bug:

The example should read os.path.normpath('/etc/passwd/')...

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