fix: realpath on windows changed behavior in python 3.8 to expand mapped drive letters to their UNC path names

[cfxegbert]

Fixes #1438

os.path.realpath on Python 3.8 Windows changed. When resolving mapped drive realpath returns the UNC path without the drive letter.

This pull restores the Python 3.7 Windows behavior of realpath being a wrapper around abspath. The behavior can be changed with the rezconfig setting windows_unc_path

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❌ Patch coverage is 91.66667% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 59.31%. Comparing base (491497f) to head (0903ec3).
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[herronelou]

Nice, I found the same issue and was going to patch on my side

[herronelou]

@JeanChristopheMorinPerso Can either this or #1543 be reviewed?