To confirm: Python does *nothing* to convert automatically from one form of path separator to another. Windows from very early on, has accepted /-slashes as path separators to API calls. Where they don't work is: at the command shell itself presumably since slashes are commonly used to introduce options; and, sometimes, the Windows Shell API although I can't lay my hands on an example at the moment.
If you were to write something in C to call CreateFile and pass a path such as "c:/temp/temp.txt" it would work without a problem because the Windows API accepts those kinds of paths. TJG _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
