[issue15196] os.path.realpath gets confused when symlinks include '..'

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Indeed, this is pretty bad behaviour, especially for realpath(). Both abspath() and normpath() should never be called before any symlinks are resolved.

Of course, fixing it as a bug means it could break existing code which relies on ".." fragments being folded.

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nosy: +hynek, pitrou
priority: normal -> high
stage:  -> needs patch

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