Strange os.path.exists() behaviour

[Casey Hawthorne]

Does this work differently under other platforms?

Pierre Quentel <quentel.pierre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>os.path.exists(path) returns True if "path" exists
>
>But on Windows it also returns True for "path" followed by any number of 
>dots :
>
>Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import os
> >>> os.path.exists('Lib/os.py')
>True                # expected
> >>> os.path.exists('Lib/os.py.')
>True                # unexpected
> >>> os.path.exists('Lib/os.py.....')
>True                # unexpected
> >>>
>
>Is there a reason for this ? Is there a test that returns True only for 
>the really existing path ?
>
>Pierre

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Regards,
Casey