[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Unipath package
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jan 29 00:55:00 CET 2007
Larry Hastings wrote:
> There is in fact a /very/ sane way to interpret "/" on Windows: the root
> directory of the "current" drive.
Whether that's sane or not is debatable -- it depends
entirely on what the application and/or user expect.
A Unix user is probably expecting "/foo" to be completely
unambiguous, and might be surprised if it gets turned
into a Windows path that's not.
In any case, there's no obvious meaning when going the other
way (i.e. translating "C:\" into a Unix path). So I think
it's reasonable to say that translation of absolute paths
is not supported in general.
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