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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-02-01, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Personally I'd say it was Jython that was wrong. Anything
> beginning with a slash has to be absolute - "/" and "\" are
> treated as equivalent in most parts of the Windows
> environment.

I guess it depends on your definition of "absolute".  In my
mind, it means that it always refers to the same location
regardless of the CWD.

That's not true for the paths starting with "/" on Windows.  If
CWD is "C:/foo/bar" then "/" refers to a different location
than it does if CWD is "D:/whatever".

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