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

[Guido van Rossum]

(Sorry, it's not just UNC paths -- it's all paths with drives.)


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> 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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