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  r79195 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-21 13:27:20 +0100 (dim, 21 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
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diff --git a/Lib/macpath.py b/Lib/macpath.py
index f58a195..3b3e4ff 100644
--- a/Lib/macpath.py
+++ b/Lib/macpath.py
@@ -193,7 +193,10 @@
     path = components[0] + colon
     for c in components[1:]:
         path = join(path, c)
-        path = Carbon.File.FSResolveAliasFile(path, 1)[0].as_pathname()
+        try:
+            path = Carbon.File.FSResolveAliasFile(path, 1)[0].as_pathname()
+        except Carbon.File.Error:
+            pass
     return path
 
 supports_unicode_filenames = False