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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-23 21:27:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-23 21:27:57 (GMT) |
| commit | da5f16ab19db54f5801489b8d0caadea793ec187 (patch) | |
| tree | e5fa7ac053518fb726a95eee89784bd78d7afb61 /Lib/posixpath.py | |
| parent | b7a837d81b9464298c6cd5b375da0934d35738c4 (diff) | |
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Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring.
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diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py index 6f15d48..6d4a9e2 100644 --- a/Lib/posixpath.py +++ b/Lib/posixpath.py @@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ def isabs(s): # Insert a '/' unless the first part is empty or already ends in '/'. def join(a, *p): - """Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed""" + """Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed. + If any component is an absolute path, all previous path components + will be discarded.""" path = a for b in p: if b.startswith('/'): |