commit 171c4aae4e9b763542c59978bce8d79b9492f813
author Hirokazu Yamamoto <ocean-city@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> Thu Sep 04 11:15:14 2008 +0000
committer Hirokazu Yamamoto <ocean-city@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> Thu Sep 04 11:15:14 2008 +0000
tree f733111177e36987ed526d4cbf935ae10acb0156
parent 65d66e100649e28637616d34a54ba528fe1a4100

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

Lib/platform.py

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index cc0431b..29d55ec 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@
     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=''):