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  r78247 | ezio.melotti | 2010-02-20 10:09:39 +0200 (Sat, 20 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  #3426: os.path.abspath now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
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diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 35dcffb..44519d4 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -337,7 +337,11 @@
 def abspath(path):
     """Return an absolute path."""
     if not isabs(path):
-        path = join(os.getcwd(), path)
+        if isinstance(path, unicode):
+            cwd = os.getcwdu()
+        else:
+            cwd = os.getcwd()
+        path = join(cwd, path)
     return normpath(path)