[Python-Dev] Pathlib enhancments - method name only

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 10 01:58:08 EDT 2016


Brett Cannon wrote:

> Depends if you use `/` or `\` as your path separator

Or whether your pathnames look entirely different, e.g VMS:

   device:[topdir.subdir.subsubdir]filename.ext;version

Pathnames are very much OS-dependent in both syntax *and* semantics.

Even the main two in use today (unix and windows) can't be
mapped directly onto each other, because windows has drive
letters and unix doesn't.

-- 
Greg


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