os.path.join() necessary?

[Michael Hudson]

Thomas Guettler <zopestoller at thomas-guettler.de> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Guettler <zopestoller at thomas-guettler.de> writes:
> >
> >>Is os.path.join() necessary? I use
> >>
> >>absolute_path=dir + "/" + file
> >>
> >>on windows (W2K) without problems.
> >>
> > Try it on the Mac.
> 
> 
> I would, but have not Mac or MacOSX here.

That's not the point.

> Can you try it?

No, but I can tell you what will happen (in Classic, at least): it
won't work.  MacOS <=9 uses colons as path separators.  

Cheers,
M.

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