youtube-dl

commit: 82fea5b42eadc4ac2d3f4f688613f140967e92b7
parent fffc618c519d10a7335eb5b06ab13d56ecea8561
Author: Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat,  8 Feb 2020 19:36:55 +0700

[compat] Introduce compat_realpath (refs #23991)

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youtube_dl/compat.py
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1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git 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