From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:38:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Explained that os.path.basename() may return something different from the
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~794
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3aecfc96811c6d85632e50fe706bb5d02d376c00;p=python

Explained that os.path.basename() may return something different from the
basename program, as suggested by Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>.

This closes bug #119485.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
index 66e278100c..f585f41c42 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ On most platforms, this is equivalent to
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{basename}{path}
 Return the base name of pathname \var{path}.  This is the second half
-of the pair returned by \code{split(\var{path})}.
+of the pair returned by \code{split(\var{path})}.  Note that the
+result of this function is different from the
+\UNIX{} \program{basename} program; where \program{basename} for
+\code{'/foo/bar/'} returns \code{'bar'}, the \function{basename()}
+function returns an empty string (\code{''}).
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{commonprefix}{list}