On 2006-10-24, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-10-24, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is translation of '/' to '\\' a feature of Windows or Python? > > Well, *that* was easy to discover on my own. ;-) > > Thanks for the pointers.
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. -- Neil Cerutti The outreach committee has enlisted 25 visitors to make calls on people who are not afflicted with any church. --Church Bulletin Blooper -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
