[Python-Dev] Alternative path suggestion

[Edward Loper]

On May 6, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Remember, the idea with portable path information is to *never*  
> store os.sep
> and os.extsep anywhere in the internal data - those should only be  
> added when
> needed to produce strings to pass to OS-specific functions or to  
> display to users.

If one of the path segments contained a path-splitting character,  
should it automatically get quoted?  (Is that even possible on all  
platforms?)  E.g., what would the following give me on windows?

str(Path('a', 'b\\c'))

-Edward