What's the perfect (OS independent) way of storing filepaths ?

[Duncan Booth]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:

>>>> import os
>>>> os.path.splitdrive('C://My Documents/My File.txt')
> ('C:\\\\', 'My Documents\\My File.txt')
> 
> I had to fake the above output because I'm not running Windows, so
> excuse me if I got it wrong.

Not that it matters, but:

>>> os.path.splitdrive('C://My Documents/My File.txt')
('C:', '//My Documents/My File.txt')