os.path.join() necessary?

[Neil Schemenauer]

Michael Chermside wrote:
> I think it would be a nice feature of a programming language that all 
> file-and-path names are expressed using '/' within the language and 
> automatically converted to the platform-appropriate format by the 
> language itself (and paths obtained from the OS are converted to '/' 
> format also).

Not a good idea.  '/' is a valid path component character in some for
some systems.

  Neil