Result of os.path.realpath("") is incorrect if cwd is on letter-less drive (\\?\-prefixed)

Bug report

1. Create volume, dir on it, don't assign a drive letter
2. In Python:

>>> import os
>>> os.chdir("\\\\?\\Volume{<uuid>}\\<dir>")
>>> os.path.realpath("")
'\\\\?\\Volume{<uuid>}\\<dir>\\.'

The dot is invalid in \\?\-prefixed path.
Dots (. and ..) are normalized by Windows API (at least on NTFS). But \\?\ paths bypass normalization and so may not contain dots. See, for example, here.
All later WinAPI calls with this path fail.

As a simple test, dir \\?\Volume{<uuid>}\dir\. doesn't work whereas dir \\?\Volume{<uuid>}\dir works.

P.S. os.path.realpath(".") gives the same invalid result

Your environment

CPython 3.10.0
Windows 10

Context
The problem arises from pip.
sys.path contains empty string (meaning current dir I presume).
And legacy installation method resolves sys.path relatively to cwd.

Investigation
Here:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4bed0db7c222f8df1b4e31107c0305214caf3f56/Lib/ntpath.py#L704
os.path.join still adds slash even if the second argument is empty. And if the path is ended with slash, dot is added somewhere below.

I fixed it to:

path = cwd if path == "." or path == "" else join(cwd, path)

從所引用的第 704 行附近的 Lib/ntpath.py 開始，使用目前目錄沒有磁碟機代號的 \?-前綴磁碟區路徑重現 Windows 行為。檢查 os.path.realpath("") 和 os.path.realpath(".") 如何建構路徑，然後加入回歸涵蓋範圍，顯示兩個結果都不會以無效的 \. 元件結尾，且產生的路徑可用於後續的 WinAPI 呼叫。