Success - Re: Trouble installing PmwContribD - no "PmwContribD.pth"

[Gordon McMillan]

Russell Whitaker struggles with .pth files:

> Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote in message
> news:<Xns911BC0768D0Fgmcmhypernetcom at 199.171.54.214>... 

[snip]

>> then a .pth file that says:
>> D:/mypackages
>> will make both the spam and andeggs packages available.
> 
> 
> OK, I did that first step, slanting as "\" instead of "/".
> 

The only time you need to use backslashes in paths on
Windows is when they are going directly to a Win32 call
or being passed to the OS (as in os.system(...)). 
If it's going to the c runtime library (that is, almost 
anything you do in regular Python), forward slashes are 
fine.

Since backslashes normally[1] need escaping, or the use of a 
raw string, I heartily advise using forward slashes 
whenever possible. It will save you from many mysterious bugs.

[1] Not needed here, because a .pth file is not written
in Python.

- Gordon