[Python-Dev] Drive suffix

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 5 01:11:04 CEST 2010


James Mills wrote:
> Windows
> is one of the only Operating Systems with a File system that reuiqres
> this [A-Z]:\ syntax.

There's also VMS, but it uses a colon too. Also its
pathnames are funky enough in other ways that it
needs its own os-specific pathname routines.

I'm not aware of any system that's "just like Windows"
except that it uses something other than colons.

-- 
Greg


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