From d82374d2420cd2935b009590e99f78b3f0e79d96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:42:04 +0000
Subject: backport bug [ 1274828 ] splitunc not documented

---
 Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex | 9 +++++++++
 Misc/NEWS                | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
index 59944f8..190cf07 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
@@ -234,6 +234,15 @@ and \var{ext} is empty or begins with a period and contains
 at most one period.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{splitunc}{path}
+Split the pathname \var{path} into a pair \code{(\var{unc}, \var{rest})}
+so that \var{unc} is the UNC mount point (such as \code{r'\e\e host\e mount'}),
+if present, and \var{rest} the rest of the path (such as 
+\code{r'\e path\e file.ext'}).  For paths containing drive letters, \var{unc}
+will always be the empty string.
+Availability:  Windows.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{walk}{path, visit, arg}
 Calls the function \var{visit} with arguments
 \code{(\var{arg}, \var{dirname}, \var{names})} for each directory in the
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f3eaa3a..45a62ef 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ Build
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
+
 - Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
 
 - Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
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