SF patch #461781 by Chris Lawrence: os.path.realpath - Resolve symlinks:
Once upon a time, I put together a little function
that tries to find the canonical filename for a given
pathname on POSIX. I've finally gotten around to
turning it into a proper patch with documentation.
On non-POSIX, I made it an alias for 'abspath', as
that's the behavior on POSIX when no symlinks are
encountered in the path.
Example:
>>> os.path.realpath('/usr/bin/X11/X')
'/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
diff --git a/Lib/plat-riscos/riscospath.py b/Lib/plat-riscos/riscospath.py
index 32f39ba..8eda834 100644
--- a/Lib/plat-riscos/riscospath.py
+++ b/Lib/plat-riscos/riscospath.py
@@ -315,6 +315,10 @@
return normpath(join(os.getcwd(), p))
+# realpath is a no-op on systems without islink support
+realpath = abspath
+
+
# Normalize a path. Only special path element under RISC OS is "^" for "..".
def normpath(p):