Some more notes

[Steve Holden]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
> 
>> Cliff Wells:
>>
>>> Why not just use "/"?
>>
>>
>> Okay, I'll use os.path.normcase to convert them.
> 
> 
> That's not necessary in almost all cases.  Windows happily(*)
> accepts forward slashes in all system calls.  The only place
> it does not is in the *shell* (aka command.com and cmd.exe).
> That means paths passed as arguments to os.system or the
> Popen gang need to be normcased, but for things like open()
> you don't need to bother.
> 
Having said which it's still good practice to use os.path functions to 
manipulate paths for forward compatibility with Windows 2007, which will 
change the separator to "^" :-)

regards
  Steve
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