From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:27:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~1449
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da5f16ab19db54f5801489b8d0caadea793ec187;p=python

Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring.
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diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index 99d7a4a8cd..06b2293293 100644
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ def isabs(s):
 # Join two (or more) paths.
 
 def join(a, *p):
-    """Join two or more pathname components, inserting "\\" as needed"""
+    """Join two or more pathname components, inserting "\\" as needed.
+    If any component is an absolute path, all previous path components
+    will be discarded."""
     path = a
     for b in p:
         b_wins = 0  # set to 1 iff b makes path irrelevant
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 6f15d48f12..6d4a9e2111 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ def isabs(s):
 # Insert a '/' unless the first part is empty or already ends in '/'.
 
 def join(a, *p):
-    """Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed"""
+    """Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed.
+    If any component is an absolute path, all previous path components
+    will be discarded."""
     path = a
     for b in p:
         if b.startswith('/'):