Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41339F80.3060900@ntlworld.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:43:28 +0100 From: Mark Thornton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Python os.path.join inconsistency? References: <413384A1.7080509@alltel.net> <20040830195455.GC15021@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4133873F.8090606@alltel.net> In-Reply-To: <4133873F.8090606@alltel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Ken Dibble wrote: > Live and Learn. > > 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. > > Regards, > Ken > It is the command line parsing which usually rejects (or gets confused by) paths using '/' for the obvious reason that most Windows applications use '/' as the option character. However if you quote the path, then it will often work. E.g. dir "c:/windows" Regards, Mark Thornton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/