[Python-Dev] Alternative path suggestion

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:11:59PM -0400, Edward Loper wrote:
> If one of the path segments contained a path-splitting character,  
> should it automatically get quoted?  (Is that even possible on all  
> platforms?)  E.g., what would the following give me on windows?
> 
> str(Path('a', 'b\\c'))

   AFAIK there is no way to escape path-splitting characters (directory
separators, actually) on any major platform.

Oleg.
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