From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:33:56 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: #15342: Add clarifying sentence to posixpath.join docstring.
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0b2~133^2
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#15342: Add clarifying sentence to posixpath.join docstring.

This sentence appears as a clarifying note in the HTML docs, and seems
worth having in the docstring since it covers a very common use case
that isn't otherwise obvious.  Thanks to Yongzhi Pan for the suggestion.
---

diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 7a4daa8be9..2e3625bc6f 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ def isabs(s):
 def join(a, *p):
     """Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed.
     If any component is an absolute path, all previous path components
-    will be discarded."""
+    will be discarded.  An empty last part will result in a path that
+    ends with a separator."""
     sep = _get_sep(a)
     path = a
     try: