Why os.path.isabs("/") on Windows returns True?

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On Feb 1, 9:55 pm, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2008-02-01, Giampaolo Rodola' <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to solve a jython-related issue and I discovered a
> > different behavior affecting os.path.isabs between CPython and
> > Jython.
>
> [...]
>
> > Is there a reason why "/" is considered an absolute pathname
> > by CPython?
>
> Sure seems like a bug to me.  On Unix, "/" is an absolute path.
> On windows, "/" is relative to the current device.

If you mean "the current drive letter" it's not actually true since "\
\" is used for that:

 >>> os.getcwd()
 'C:\\Python25'
 >>> os.path.realpath('\\')
 'C:\\'
 >>>