an absolute path, all previous components 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{path} is
+(\code{os.sep}) inserted between components, unless \var{path2} is
empty. Note that on Windows, since there is a current directory for
each drive, \function{os.path.join("c:", "foo")} represents a path
relative to the current directory on drive \file{C:} (\file{c:foo}), not