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r83352 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 20:11:07 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#9440: Remove borderline test case that fails based on unpredictable conditions such as compiler flags.
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r83356 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:29:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Remove trailing whitespace.
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r83357 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:59:55 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#5778: document that sys.version can contain a newline.
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r83358 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 22:05:31 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#9442: do not document a specific format for sys.version; rather refer to version_info and the platform module.
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r83362 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:12:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#8910: add a file explaining why Lib/test/data is there.
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r83366 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:26:40 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
There always is a False and True now.
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r83368 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:40:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#7909: the prefixes \\.\ and \\?\ indicate special Windows paths, do not try to manipulate them. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx for details.
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r83369 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:41:42 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix "Berkeley" name.
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diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index a124dfd..11a0a3e 100644
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -399,6 +399,12 @@
"""Normalize path, eliminating double slashes, etc."""
# Preserve unicode (if path is unicode)
backslash, dot = (u'\\', u'.') if isinstance(path, unicode) else ('\\', '.')
+ if path.startswith(('\\\\.\\', '\\\\?\\')):
+ # in the case of paths with these prefixes:
+ # \\.\ -> device names
+ # \\?\ -> literal paths
+ # do not do any normalization, but return the path unchanged
+ return path
path = path.replace("/", "\\")
prefix, path = splitdrive(path)
# We need to be careful here. If the prefix is empty, and the path starts