Virtual Codebase shows RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded when --strip-root is used during scanning  #2348

Error: Invalid value: ERROR: failed to collect codebase at: 'tests/data/analyzer-plugins/sample_files_result.json'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/scancode/cli.py", line 805, in run_scan
    codebase = codebase_class(
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/resource.py", line 1465, in __init__
    self._populate(scan_data)
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/resource.py", line 1675, in _populate
    parent = self._get_or_create_parent(path, parent_by_path)
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/resource.py", line 1544, in _get_or_create_parent
    parent_parent = self._get_or_create_parent(parent_path, parent_by_path)
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/resource.py", line 1544, in _get_or_create_parent
    parent_parent = self._get_or_create_parent(parent_path, parent_by_path)
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/resource.py", line 1544, in _get_or_create_parent
    parent_parent = self._get_or_create_parent(parent_path, parent_by_path)
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  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/resource.py", line 1540, in _get_or_create_parent
    parent_path = parent_directory(path).rstrip('/').rstrip('\\')
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/fileutils.py", line 279, in parent_directory
    left, _right = split_parent_resource(path, force_posix)
  File "/home/ayan/Desktop/nexB/gsoc20/rebase-test/scancode-results-analyzer/tmp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/commoncode/fileutils.py", line 256, in split_parent_resource
    return splitter.split(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/posixpath.py", line 104, in split
    sep = _get_sep(p)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/posixpath.py", line 42, in _get_sep
    if isinstance(path, bytes):
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object