2010/9/2 swapnil <swapnil...@gmail.com>: > I could not find any documentation for variables os.path.sep and > os.path.altsep. Although the first is pretty straightforward can > anyone explain the purpose of the second variable? Is it even useful? > According to issue http://bugs.python.org/issue709428, os.path.altsep > was 'None' till a long time and it didn't bother anyone? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > see http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.sep http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.altsep
On windows it returns a slash >>> os.altsep '/' which is often easier to use (i.e. if I understand correctly, in most usual cases the forward slash should probably just work on most of the recent OSes). vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list