R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: "first part" by itself sounds like there can only be two parts. How about 'inserts a separator between each pair of...' Also, what does 'absolute' mean on Windows? Does it include the drive? If so, the second sentence should probably say 'if a part starts with a separator...' (Assuming, of course, that that's how ntpath.join actually works). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9921> _______________________________________