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  r66213 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-09-04 20:15:14 +0900 | 1 line

  Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via its symbolic link.
  Reviewed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
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Lib/platform.py

@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ def _follow_symlinks(filepath):
     filepath = os.path.abspath(filepath)
     while os.path.islink(filepath):
         filepath = os.path.normpath(
-            os.path.join(filepath,os.readlink(filepath)))
+            os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filepath),os.readlink(filepath)))
     return filepath
 
 def _syscmd_uname(option,default=''):