Pascale Mourier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>YES IT IS! Sorry for the inconvenience. I usually start from this
>assumption. Yesterday this new student was really agressive, and I
>assumed he was right!
>
>Here's his mistake: with Windows the name of the directory rooted at a
>drive name (say C:) is called 'C:\' not 'C:', and it's been that way for
>ages.
The root of drive C: is, indeed, spelled "C:\". However, the spelling "C:"
has a well-defined meaning, and it has since MS-DOS 2 when directories were
introduced. It means "the current directory for C:".
>Well, os.listdir('C:') instead of raising an exception, for some reason
>behaves like os.listdir('.').
Because it's not an exception. The meaning is well-defined. This can be
very handy, for example, when copying between deeply nested paths on
different drives:
D:
cd "\Ridiculous\Long\Path\Names\For Annoyance"
C:
cd "\Another\Ridiculous\Long\Path\Name"
copy C:one.txt D:two.txt
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