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  r79195 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-21 13:27:20 +0100 (dim, 21 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
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Lib/macpath.py

@@ -193,7 +193,10 @@ def realpath(path):
     path = components[0] + colon
     for c in components[1:]:
         path = join(path, c)
-        path = Carbon.File.FSResolveAliasFile(path, 1)[0].as_pathname()
+        try:
+            path = Carbon.File.FSResolveAliasFile(path, 1)[0].as_pathname()
+        except Carbon.File.Error:
+            pass
     return path
 
 supports_unicode_filenames = False

Misc/NEWS

@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ C-API
 Library
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+- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
+
 - Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
 
 - Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.