On 6 Sep 2013 07:18, "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 9/5/2013 11:33 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: >> >> random...@fastmail.us wrote: >>> >>> >>> Of course, in 99% of situations where you can use a windows pathname in >>> Python, you are free to use it with a forward slash instead of a >>> backslash. >> >> >> This is actually worth repeating, because it's not well known. >> >> ALL Windows APIs handle forward and backward slashes interchangably. It is >> only the command interpreter that requires the backslash. > > > and only for the path the the command, when needed, and not for the arguments of the command. Example, in a python development directory > > > pcbuild\python_d tools/scripts/patchcheck.py >
Interesting. I was pretty sure that forward slashes were allowed in this situation, just that tab completion didn't work unless you used backslashes. Well, fortunately I'm not able to check that these days.
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