On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Windows accepts both forward and backslashes in file names.
Small clarification: The Windows *API* accepts both types of slash (you can open a file using forward slashes, for instance), but not all Windows *applications* are aware of this (generally only cross-platform ones take notice of this), and most Windows *users* prefer backslashes. So when you come to display a Windows path, you may want to convert to backslashes. But that's for display. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list