[issue30906] os.path.join misjoins paths

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

Arguably it isn't even against the documented behavior, since a component starting with a slash an absolute path.

I'd be in favor of preserving the drive when encountering a component starting with a separator. Not sure of the value in changing the behavior in older versions - apparently I've never encountered this before, and I feel like I should have.

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resolution: not a bug -> 
stage: resolved -> test needed
type:  -> behavior
versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.6

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