commit f4e2ccf3b3191a796b0b8631f686363b3b97dcce
author Hirokazu Yamamoto <ocean-city@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> Thu Sep 04 11:21:28 2008 +0000
committer Hirokazu Yamamoto <ocean-city@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> Thu Sep 04 11:21:28 2008 +0000
tree 297db357af7356f46a63f989e51f300a75d9004e
parent afa0d58a2d55fa157482e2006028688db6553f90

Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via its symbolic link.
Reviewed Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (Backport of r66213)

Lib/platform.py

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index f34e735..0df65db 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@
     filepath = _abspath(filepath)
     while os.path.islink(filepath):
         filepath = os.path.normpath(
-            os.path.join(filepath,os.readlink(filepath)))
+            os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filepath),os.readlink(filepath)))
     return filepath
 
 def _syscmd_uname(option,default=''):