[Python-ideas] Support os.path.join for Windows paths on Posix

[Guido van Rossum]

Yeah, ntpath doen't know about UNC paths. :-( We should fix this. We should
also make sure that PEP 428 (pathlib) does this right from day 1.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:

> ntpath still gets drive-relative paths wrong on Windows:
>
> >>> ntpath.join(r'\\a\b\c\d', r'\e\f')
> '\\e\\f'
> # should be r'\\a\b\e\f'
>
> >>> ntpath.join(r'C:\a\b\c\d', r'\e\f')
> '\\e\\f'
> # should be r'C:\e\f'
>
> (same behavior in Python 2.7 and 3.3)
>
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> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:43 PM, אלעזר <elazarg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2013/10/31 Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com>:
>> >>>> import os
>> >>>> os.path.join('C:\\', 'x.jpg')
>> > 'C:\\/x.jpg'
>> >>>>
>> >
>> > Isn't something wrong there? My idea: check for \'s in the path. If
>> there
>> > are any, assume \ is the path separator, not /.
>>
>> No, nothing is wrong:
>>
>> C:\Dev>cd C:\/temp
>>
>> C:\Temp>
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