Merged revisions 68884,68973,68978,69003,69083,69112-69113 via svnmerge from
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r68884 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-24 04:52:26 -0600 (Sat, 24 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Add a test for UNC import paths, see issue 3677
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r68973 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-26 15:29:38 -0600 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Copy over docs on advanced role features from Sphinx docs.
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r68978 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-26 15:51:56 -0600 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 3 lines
Issue #5073: Fix occasional failure of bsddb/test/test_lock.py. Thanks
Hirokazu Yamamoto for the patch.
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r69003 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-26 21:07:53 -0600 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line
excellent place to use a set() #5069
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r69083 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-28 21:03:00 -0600 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 1 line
fix download url
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r69112 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-29 20:02:25 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 1 line
pep8tify conditionals
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r69113 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-29 20:24:39 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 1 line
make _tkinter._flatten check the result of PySequence_Size for errors #3880
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diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 745c920..37a2a02 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -403,12 +403,12 @@
until we either arrive at something that isn't a symlink, or
encounter a path we've seen before (meaning that there's a loop).
"""
- paths_seen = []
+ paths_seen = set()
while islink(path):
if path in paths_seen:
# Already seen this path, so we must have a symlink loop
return None
- paths_seen.append(path)
+ paths_seen.add(path)
# Resolve where the link points to
resolved = os.readlink(path)
if not isabs(resolved):