Tim Chase wrote:
>>> Comparing file system paths as strings is very brittle.
>>
>> Why do you say that? Are you thinking of something like this?
>>
>> /home//user/somedirectory/../file
>> /home/user/file
>
> Or even
>
> ~/file
~ is interpreted as "my home directory" by the shell, but when it's used
in a path, it has no special meaning. open('~/foo.txt') tries to open a
file called foo.txt in a subdirectory of the current directory called '~'.
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