Marco,

Thanks for looking deeper into it.
I would like to check the solution ASAP.
We have really crazy dir structure which can catch a lot of
the unexpected problems with paths, links, circular links etc.

Should I expect the new version to generate the exception
as you suggested?

Best Regards,
    Sywlester Warecki

Marco Buccini wrote:
> Marco Buccini <marcusbu@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I've just found a similar bug:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1646838
>
> However, does os.path.realpath's behavior have to be as the one
> specified by the POSIX standard (
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/realpath.3.html )?
> If we wanted to follow the standard, we should break the
> retro-compatibility, since we should raise an exception in the case the
> path passed as argument doesn't exist.
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