DOS Follies (Was: Docstrings...)

2010-03-03 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:44:08 +0100 mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's true, it's because Gates fancied using / for options switch instead of -, and to hell with

Re: DOS Follies (Was: Docstrings...)

2010-03-03 Thread Edward A. Falk
In article mailman.248.1267652136.23598.python-l...@python.org, D'Arcy J.M. Cain da...@druid.net wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:44:08 +0100 mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's