Path transformation

[Mike Meyer]

In <8e96a0b90608190527p3a2b9b90hf18b4a0f947cffec at mail.gmail.com>, mal content <artifact.one at googlemail.com> typed:
> For example, this path corresponds to the current working directory:
> 
>   "dir1/dir2/dir3/../../../"
> 
> So I'd like to be able to pass that to a function and get the optimised
> result of:
> 
>   "."
> 
> It's giving me a real headache trying to work out the algorithm
> to do this.

If you just want the algorithm, the python distribution has one in
posixpath.py: the normpath function. Heed the warning about symbolic
links.

	<mike
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