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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:43:28 +0100
From: Mark Thornton <mark DOT p DOT thornton AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Python os.path.join inconsistency?
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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





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