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Author	9001
Recipients	9001, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2021-04-14.12:51:02
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1618404662.92.0.914724176997.issue43847@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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some win7sp1 and win10:20H2 boxes cannot realpath a networked drive letter such as b"n:" (also affects b"n:\\") * observed with 3.8.7 and 3.9.1 * 3.7.9 is fine requirements to trigger: * bytestring (not unicode str) * just the drive letter (subfolders are ok) * networked drive (regular disks and vmhgfs are ok) * enterprise/AD network? (doesn't seem to happen with samba) hits the following exceptions in succession: * access denied at L601: "path = _getfinalpathname(path)" * "cant concat str to bytes" at L621: "return path + tail"

some win7sp1 and win10:20H2 boxes cannot realpath a networked drive letter such as b"n:" (also affects b"n:\\")
 * observed with 3.8.7 and 3.9.1
 * 3.7.9 is fine

requirements to trigger:
 * bytestring (not unicode str)
 * just the drive letter (subfolders are ok)
 * networked drive (regular disks and vmhgfs are ok)
 * enterprise/AD network? (doesn't seem to happen with samba)

hits the following exceptions in succession:
 * access denied at L601: "path = _getfinalpathname(path)"
 * "cant concat str to bytes" at L621: "return path + tail"

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Date	User	Action	Args
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