Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via its symbolic...

Reviewed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index cc0431bc56c0e63939a46016b8962fa10038343c..29d55ecf7b151ba5307ce15afa32516cdbe23d54 100755 (executable)
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ def _follow_symlinks(filepath):
     filepath = _abspath(filepath)
     while os.path.islink(filepath):
         filepath = os.path.normpath(
-            os.path.join(filepath,os.readlink(filepath)))
+            os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filepath),os.readlink(filepath)))
     return filepath
 
 def _syscmd_uname(option,default=''):