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authorZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2014-10-10 21:05:54 (GMT)
committerZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2014-10-10 21:05:54 (GMT)
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Closes #15414: Merge with 3.4
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@@ -206,17 +206,22 @@ the :mod:`glob` module.)
Support for detecting non-root mount points on Windows.
-.. function:: join(path1[, path2[, ...]])
-
- Join one or more path components intelligently. If any component is an absolute
- path, all previous components (on Windows, including the previous drive letter,
- if there was one) are thrown away, and joining continues. The return value is
- the concatenation of *path1*, and optionally *path2*, etc., with exactly one
- directory separator (``os.sep``) following each non-empty part except the last.
- (This means that an empty last part will result in a path that ends with a
- separator.) Note that on Windows, since there is a current directory for
- each drive, ``os.path.join("c:", "foo")`` represents a path relative to the
- current directory on drive :file:`C:` (:file:`c:foo`), not :file:`c:\\foo`.
+.. function:: join(path, *paths)
+
+ Join one or more path components intelligently. The return value is the
+ concatenation of *path* and any members of *\*paths* with exactly one
+ directory separator (``os.sep``) following each non-empty part except the
+ last, meaning that the result will only end in a separator if the last
+ part is empty. If a component is an absolute path, all previous
+ components are thrown away and joining continues from the absolute path
+ component.
+
+ On Windows, the drive letter is not reset when an absolute path component
+ (e.g., ``r'\foo'``) is encountered. If a component contains a drive
+ letter, all previous components are thrown away and the drive letter is
+ reset. Note that since there is a current directory for each drive,
+ ``os.path.join("c:", "foo")`` represents a path relative to the current
+ directory on drive :file:`C:` (:file:`c:foo`), not :file:`c:\\foo`.
.. function:: normcase(path)