Tim Chase wrote: > Windows seems to be (occasionally) doing the translation as /F > mentions:
as leif pointed out, there's no translation. > C:\temp> REM try the same filename convention from dos prompt > C:\temp> type subdir/test.txt > The syntax of the command is incorrect. > C:\temp> REM try with quotes, just in case... > C:\temp> type "subdir/test.txt" > The syntax of the command is incorrect. "type" is built into the command shell. it's the command shell that refuses to deal with forward slashes, not the underlying API:s. > Windows seems to doing the translation inconsistently (I know > that comes as a shock...) it's a documented inconsistency, which is preserved mostly for historical reasons (the shell syntax hasn't changed much since the CP/M days) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
