Improvement ?

[Jean-Marc Ranger]

> Also, you got very lucky with your backslashes:
> 
> >>> "C:\SomeDirectory\.\AnotherDirectory"
>  'C:\\SomeDirectory\\.\\AnotherDirectory'
> >>> "C:\someDirectory\.\anotherDirectory"
>  'C:\\someDirectory\\.\x07notherDirectory'

Oopps....

I need to be more careful.  Those names are obviously dummies, but I
could have got stuck by that one easily.

Thanks for spotting it.

And thanks everyone for the hints.

Jean-Marc