os.path.join() necessary?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> I was suprised that I can use (dir + '/' + file) on windows.
> Since my application will only run on windows and unix I won't
> use os.path.join()
> 
> 
> If you just want to join a directory and a file it is no problem,
> but I store paths in a database. This would mean I would have to
> transform the path to the current operating system each time I get
> it from the database.
> 

as pointed out a moment ago, does "dir + '/' + dir2 + '/' + file" work?  Will
it continue to work?  If another admin or user sees the path, will they be
confused by the format?  Just letting it be seems like sloppy coding to me.