[issue15342] os.path.join behavior

[Pan Yongzhi]

New submission from Pan Yongzhi <fossilet at users.sourceforge.net>:

I am constructing a source directory argument to rsync. It has to end with slash due to rsync behavior. I use:

os.path.join('/src/dir', os.path.sep)

And run it and realized the source directory becomes '/'. Luckily it is not the destination.

Why should join discard all previous path components if any component is an absoulute path? This is such a surprise and renders this function useless.

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messages: 165348
nosy: fossilet
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.path.join behavior
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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