[Tutor] slashes in paths

[Dominik George]

Hi,

the base path is \, and one exists for every drive. C:\foo is foo in C:'s root, C:foo is foo in C:'s current working directory.

-nik



Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com> schrieb:

>On 20 July 2013 13:46, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> The fact that you gave it a prefix containing forward
>> slashes is confusing things. It works best with a list
>> of individual folder names and let it provide the os.sep.
>> Try splitting your partial path before feeding it to join.
>
>Except I can't do that with 'C:' since the docs stay that on windows,
>only 'c:/' is accepted as the base path, not 'c:'.
>
>If only Bill Gates hadn't chosen '\', which is awkward to type and
>hard to make compatible - but I think he figured his wonderful DOS
>would be a Unix-killer, reign supreme, and there would be no
>compatibility problem. All I can say to that is, "thank God for
>competition."  ;')
>
>Jim
>
>At one time if someone had a lame idea,  you'd say, "That and ten
>cents will get you a cup of coffee."   Now you have to say, "That and
>five dollars and forty-eight cents will get you a double
>creme-de-menthe Grande frappe, with a touch of juniper, nonfat creme,
>and low on the sugar."
>
>It just ain't the same.
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