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Re: Python os.path.join inconsistency?


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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Chris Herborth (cherborth@qnx.com)
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