String handling bug in Python

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: David Bolen [mailto:db3l at fitlinxx.com]
> 
> Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > Forward slashes are easier for almost everyone to type than backward
> > slashes, and work fine on Windows.  Paths using forward 
> slashes also run
> > 13-17 times faster in Python code, due to Python's Unix 
> heritage <wink>.
> 
> Just as an FYI, forward slashes don't actually work *everywhere* on
> Windows - there are notable UNC names that must use \\ as a prefix and
> won't accept // in the API.  It's not that common but I've been bitten
> by it in the past.
> 
> But they definitely work in any local file API.

import os.path

path = '//computer/path/to/file'
path = os.path.normpath(path)
print path

Tim Delaney