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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/compat.py11
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index c75ab131b..062b338d7 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -2754,6 +2754,17 @@ else:
compat_expanduser = os.path.expanduser
+if compat_os_name == 'nt' and sys.version_info < (3, 8):
+ # os.path.realpath on Windows does not follow symbolic links
+ # prior to Python 3.8 (see https://bugs.python.org/issue9949)
+ def compat_realpath(path):
+ while os.path.islink(path):
+ path = os.path.abspath(os.readlink(path))
+ return path
+else:
+ compat_realpath = os.path.realpath
+
+
if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
def compat_print(s):
from .utils import preferredencoding