From: Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 12:36:55 +0000 (+0700)
Subject: [compat] Introduce compat_realpath (refs #23991)
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[compat] Introduce compat_realpath (refs #23991)
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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