From 82fea5b42eadc4ac2d3f4f688613f140967e92b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 19:36:55 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] [compat] Introduce compat_realpath (refs #23991) --- youtube_dl/compat.py | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py index c75ab131b..062b338d7 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/compat.py +++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py @@ -2754,6 +2754,17 @@ else: compat_expanduser = os.path.expanduser +if compat_os_name == 'nt' and sys.version_info < (3, 8): + # os.path.realpath on Windows does not follow symbolic links + # prior to Python 3.8 (see https://bugs.python.org/issue9949) + def compat_realpath(path): + while os.path.islink(path): + path = os.path.abspath(os.readlink(path)) + return path +else: + compat_realpath = os.path.realpath + + if sys.version_info < (3, 0): def compat_print(s): from .utils import preferredencoding -- 2.39.5