windows / unix path

[Larry Bates]

Marcin201 wrote:
> Is there an built-in functionality in python to convert Windows paths
> to Unix paths?  I am running into problems when creating data files on
> Windows and the running them on a Unix platform.  I create paths using
> os.path.join.
> 
> os.path.join('Pictures', '01.jpg') returns 'Pictures\\01..jpg' on
> Win.  When I read files created on Win under Unix this is a problem,
> python cannot open 'Pictures\\01.jpg'
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcin

I use posixpath when I want to "force" forward slashes that I know will work on 
Linux.  Actually the forward slashes work fine on Windows also (undocumented 
feature of Windows).

-Larry