[Python-Dev] Path object design

[Fredrik Lundh]

Steve Holden wrote:

> Although the last two smell like bugs, the point of urljoin is to make 
> an absolute URL from an absolute ("current page") URL

also known as a base URL:

     http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.4.1

(os.path.join's behaviour is also well-defined, btw; if any component is 
an absolute path, all preceding components are ignored.)

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