On 19/06/13 17:41, Jim Mooney wrote:
you should use forward slashes. I have no idea why Bill Gates thought backslashes were kewl
Because MS DOS was copying CP/M which didn't have directory paths (it was used with 180K floppy disks that stored everything at the top level) but did have command options that were indicated by a forward slash DIR /S was a sorted directory listing etc. So MS DOS inherited / as an options marker which precluded it's later use as a path separator... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
