From 3aecfc96811c6d85632e50fe706bb5d02d376c00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:38:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explained that os.path.basename() may return something different from the basename program, as suggested by Gregor Hoffleit . This closes bug #119485. --- Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex index 66e278100c8..f585f41c424 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex @@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ On most platforms, this is equivalent to \begin{funcdesc}{basename}{path} Return the base name of pathname \var{path}. This is the second half -of the pair returned by \code{split(\var{path})}. +of the pair returned by \code{split(\var{path})}. Note that the +result of this function is different from the +\UNIX{} \program{basename} program; where \program{basename} for +\code{'/foo/bar/'} returns \code{'bar'}, the \function{basename()} +function returns an empty string (\code{''}). \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{commonprefix}{list}