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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-08-21 21:09:33 (GMT)
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bpo-9949: Enable symlink traversal for ntpath.realpath (GH-15287)
(cherry picked from commit 75e064962ee0e31ec19a8081e9d9cc957baf6415) Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
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@@ -824,6 +824,9 @@ characters or bytes unrepresentable at the OS level.
environment variable and does not use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not normally set
for regular user accounts.
+:func:`~os.path.realpath` on Windows now resolves reparse points, including
+symlinks and directory junctions.
+
ncurses
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