#7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.

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Georg Brandl 2010-08-02 19:19:26 +00:00
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@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ applications should use string objects to access all files.
.. function:: normpath(path)
Normalize a pathname. This collapses redundant separators and up-level
references so that ``A//B``, ``A/./B`` and ``A/foo/../B`` all become ``A/B``.
references so that ``A//B``, ``A/B/``, ``A/./B`` and ``A/foo/../B`` all become
``A/B``.
It does not normalize the case (use :func:`normcase` for that). On Windows, it
converts forward slashes to backward slashes. It should be understood that this
may change the meaning of the path if it contains symbolic links!