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

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On Feb 1, 10:34 pm, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2008-02-01, Giampaolo Rodola' <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 1, 9:55 pm, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> >> On 2008-02-01, Giampaolo Rodola' <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > I'm trying to solve a jython-related issue and I discovered a
> >> > different behavior affecting os.path.isabs between CPython and
> >> > Jython.
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> >> > Is there a reason why "/" is considered an absolute pathname
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> >> Sure seems like a bug to me.  On Unix, "/" is an absolute path.
> >> On windows, "/" is relative to the current device.
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> > If you mean "the current drive letter" it's not actually true
> > since "\ \" is used for that:
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> > >>> os.getcwd()
> >  'C:\\Python25'
> > >>> os.path.realpath('\\')
> >  'C:\\'
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> You'll get identical results with "/".

Didn't know that. And this is another strange thing since Windows
shell does not behave like that:

C:\Python25>cd /

C:\Python25>cd \

C:\>