[3.15] gh-84548: Document Windows specific behavior of abspath() and realpath() (GH-155388) - #155673
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…ealpath() (pythonGH-155388) On Windows abspath() resolves a drive-relative path against the current directory of the specified drive, capitalizes the drive letter and strips trailing dots and spaces, so the result can differ from normpath(join(os.getcwd(), path)). realpath() returns the path in the case reported by the operating system. (cherry picked from commit 582a2d3) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
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On Windows abspath() resolves a drive-relative path against the current
directory of the specified drive, capitalizes the drive letter and strips
trailing dots and spaces, so the result can differ from
normpath(join(os.getcwd(), path)). realpath() returns the path in the case
reported by the operating system.
(cherry picked from commit 582a2d3)
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka storchaka@gmail.com