[New-bugs-announce] [issue8043] ntpath.realpath munges os.devnull

[Jason R. Coombs]

New submission from Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com>:

On Python 2.6 and Python 2.7a, calling ntpath.realpath(os.devnull) returns '\\\\nul' (two backslashes followed by nul), which is not a valid filename.

This appears to have been fixed in Python 3.1, as on 3.1.1, ntpath.realpath(os.devnull) returns '\\\\.\\nul' which apparently is the absolute path to the NULL file handle.

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components: Windows
messages: 100314
nosy: jaraco
severity: normal
status: open
title: ntpath.realpath munges os.devnull
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7

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