[issue15286] normpath does not work with local literal paths

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> May I ask you why you mention the symbolic links? I know that if one
> of the segments of the path is a symbolic link there are problems but
> this is not related to \\?\ or am I confused? Just curious :)

No, it is not related with "\\?\" but I'm pointing out that normpath()
isn't very useful because of that. And Windows has symlink support
nowadays :-)

For the record, I'm trying to build a saner path-handling library at
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib/ . I hope to propose it for
inclusion in 3.4.

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