debian/control: Move phantomjs from Recommends to Suggests.

[youtubedl] / youtube_dl / compat.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index c75ab131b9955cec1367ec42aa41d8dadde423da..d1b86bd13df40676f76879e8e9ea314e1fb3c9be 100644 (file)
--- 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
@@ -2998,6 +3009,7 @@ __all__ = [
     'compat_os_name',
     'compat_parse_qs',
     'compat_print',
+    'compat_realpath',
     'compat_setenv',
     'compat_shlex_quote',
     'compat_shlex_split',