On 2006-10-26, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti <horpner at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>Some experimentation shows that Python does seem to provide
>>*some* translation. Windows lets me use '/' as a path separator,
>>but not as the name of the root of a partition name. But perhaps
>>this a peculiarity of the commands themselves, and not of Windows
>>path names in particular.
>>>> C:\PYTHON24>CD /
>> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
>>>> C:\PYTHON24>CD \
>> C:\>EDIT /PYTHON24/README
>> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
>> The Windows APIs all accept either forward slashes or back, and
> have done so clear back to Windows 3.0. However, the Windows
> command shells do not. That's what you're seeing here.
Well, kudos to Windows then for making Python look really smart
while making itself look like a dufus. ;-)
Seriously, experiments show the forward slash is OK as a
seperator, it just can't be root.
--
Neil Cerutti
