Python os.path.join inconsistency?
Chris Herborth
cherborth@qnx.com
Wed Sep 1 14:53:00 GMT 2004
Reini Urban wrote:
> Ken Dibble schrieb:
>
>> I guess my limited experience (including not being a windows programmer)
>> colored my perception.
>>
>> I had never been able to get any Windows variant I was exposed to,
>> to accept a forward slash. So much for my recall device of
>> Unix Forward, Windows Backward.
>
> Win95 derivates accept only backward, WinNT since always forward slashes
> also.
This is rather off-topic, but even DOS would properly handle paths with
forward slashes in commands that didn't choke trying to parse them into
arguments (for example, Info-ZIP's zip/unzip or POV-Ray).
This is an undocumented feature ever since DOS implemented directories.
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