Does os.path relpath produce an incorrect relative path?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 25 12:02:45 EDT 2023


On 25/05/23 7:49 pm, BlindAnagram wrote:
> The first of these three results produces an incorrect relative path 
> because relpath does not strip off any non-directory tails before 
> comparing paths.

It has no way of knowing whether a pathname component is a directory
or not. It's purely an operation on strings, it doesn't look in the
file system.

-- 
Greg


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