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Author methane
Recipients Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard, brett.cannon, docs@python, eryksun, methane, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-03-13.02:58:49
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> posixpath.abspath() collapses "<path>/<symlink>/.." to "<path>", this is not correct. Not sure about ntpath.abspath().

I feel this is reasonable limitation, and expected behavior for some cases.
So I think adding note about this in document is enough.
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2017-03-13 02:58:49methanesetrecipients: + methane, brett.cannon, pitrou, docs@python, serhiy.storchaka, eryksun, Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard
2017-03-13 02:58:49methanesetmessageid: <1489373929.76.0.223814828695.issue29688@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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