#15342: Add clarifying sentence to posixpath.join docstring.

This sentence appears as a clarifying note in the HTML docs, and seems
worth having in the docstring since it covers a very common use case
that isn't otherwise obvious.  Thanks to Yongzhi Pan for the suggestion.
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R David Murray 2012-07-21 14:37:29 -04:00
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@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ def isabs(s):
def join(a, *p): def join(a, *p):
"""Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed. """Join two or more pathname components, inserting '/' as needed.
If any component is an absolute path, all previous path components If any component is an absolute path, all previous path components
will be discarded.""" will be discarded. An empty last part will result in a path that
ends with a separator."""
path = a path = a
for b in p: for b in p:
if b.startswith('/'): if b.startswith('/'):