From 353ebce2a02c1ee74f55524f9330eb54c1c6b2c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 19:19:26 +0000 Subject: #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped. --- Doc/library/os.path.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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! -- cgit v0.12