From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:36:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #1475009: clarify ntpath.join behavior with absolute components
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~776
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=677800723a7f2d31bf6b72cc8dd65314781a5f72;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Bug #1475009: clarify ntpath.join behavior with absolute components
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
index cea963e69ae3..9f0de1f14f59 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
@@ -146,8 +146,9 @@ should detect mount points for all \UNIX{} and \POSIX{} variants.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{join}{path1\optional{, path2\optional{, ...}}}
-Joins one or more path components intelligently.  If any component is
-an absolute path, all previous components are thrown away, and joining
+Join one or more path components intelligently.  If any component is
+an absolute path, all previous components (on Windows, including the
+previous drive letter, if there was one) are thrown away, and joining
 continues.  The return value is the concatenation of \var{path1}, and
 optionally \var{path2}, etc., with exactly one directory separator
 (\code{os.sep}) inserted between components, unless \var{path2} is