The format of filename

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Oct 24 10:56:05 EDT 2006


Neil Cerutti wrote:

> Where can I find documentation of what Python accepts as the
> filename argument to the builtin function file?
> 
> As an example, I'm aware (through osmosis?) that I can use '/' as
> a directory separator in filenames on both Unix and Dos. But
> where is this documented?

in the documentation for your operating system.  Python doesn't do 
anything with the filenames.

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