[Python-Dev] realpath?

[Ka-Ping Yee]

We have normpath() and readlink(), but how about realpath()?

Seems like a good thing to have in the posixmodule.

The man page for the C routine says:


     char *realpath (const char *file_name, char *resolved_name);

DESCRIPTION
     realpath resolves all links, symbolic links, and references to ``.'' and
     ``..'' in file_name and stores it in resolved_name.

     It can handle both relative and absolute path names.  For absolute path
     names and the relative names whose resolved name cannot be expressed
     relatively (for example, ../../reldir), it returns the resolved absolute
     name.

     resolved_name should point to a buffer (MAXPATHLEN) bytes in length to
     contain the fully resolved path name.




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