[ python-Bugs-1209447 ] os.path.join() fails if 2nd arg is a UNC path

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Bugs item #1209447, was opened at 2005-05-26 22:45
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Category: Windows
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: John Ehresman (jpe)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.path.join() fails if 2nd arg is a UNC path

Initial Comment:
os.path.join('c:', r'\server\share') returns
c:\server\share rather than \server\share. 
Interestingly os.path.join('c:a', r'\server\share')
returns r'\server\share'.  IMHO, r'\server\share'
should be returned in all cases.

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>Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-06-03 20:09

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I'd recommend not to change the behaviour, but add a note in
the docs that UNCs are not recognized as such in os.path.join.

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Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-05-31 12:25

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This is a difficult issue, since as far as I recall Windows
allows two or more backslashes in a row in the middle of
normal paths.

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