[Python-Dev] PEP 355 status

[Talin]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:49 AM 10/25/2006 -0700, Talin wrote:
>> Having done a path library myself (in C++, for our code base at work),
>> the trickiest part is getting the Windows path manipulations right, and
>> fitting them into a model that allows writing of platform-agnostic code.
>> This is especially vexing when you realize that its often useful to
>> manipulate unix-style paths even when running under Win32 and vice
>> versa. A prime example is that I have a lot of Python code at work that
>> manipulates Perforce client specs files. The path specifications in
>> these files are platform-agnostic, and use forward slashes regardless of
>> the host platform, so "os.path.normpath" doesn't do the right thing 
>> for me.
> 
> You probably want to use the posixpath module directly in that case, 
> though perhaps you've already discovered that.

Never heard of it. Its not in the standard library, is it? I don't see 
it in the table of contents or the index.