On 2006-10-26, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
