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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-08-02 19:19:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-08-02 19:19:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 353ebce2a02c1ee74f55524f9330eb54c1c6b2c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 38c6c1412aa8c20597504a2121395b622a7c9cef /Doc | |
| parent | 56be37cef2c102190b88c015ca9820821f35792a (diff) | |
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#7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst index 819bea9..317f55a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.path.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.path.rst @@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ applications should use string objects to access all files. .. function:: normpath(path) Normalize a pathname. This collapses redundant separators and up-level - references so that ``A//B``, ``A/./B`` and ``A/foo/../B`` all become ``A/B``. + references so that ``A//B``, ``A/B/``, ``A/./B`` and ``A/foo/../B`` all become + ``A/B``. + It does not normalize the case (use :func:`normcase` for that). On Windows, it converts forward slashes to backward slashes. It should be understood that this may change the meaning of the path if it contains symbolic links! |