Behaviour of os.path.join

[Barry Scott]

> On 26 May 2020, at 18:01, BlindAnagram <blindanagram at nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
> On 26/05/2020 17:09, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> Mats Wichmann <mats at python.org> writes:
>>> an absolute path is one that starts with the pathname separator.
>> 
>>  The Python Library Reference does not use the term
>>  "pathname separator". It uses "directory separator"
>>  (os.sep) and "filename separator" ('/' on Unix).
>> 
>>  On Windows:
>> 
>> |>>> import pathlib
>> |>>> import os
>> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath('\\').is_absolute()
>> |False
>> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath(os.sep).is_absolute()
>> |False
>> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath('/').is_absolute()
>> |False
> 
> Thanks, that seems to suggest that there is an issue and that I should
> hence submit this as an issue.

Can you post the a link to the issue please?

I note that

>>> pathlib.Path('/').is_absolute()
False
>>> pathlib.Path('/').resolve().is_absolute()
True
>>>

The resolve() is required and I think should not be required.

Barry

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