Strange "feature" involving double slashes in Win98

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:16:59 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Do you have pywin32 (win32all) installed?  Try this one instead:
> 
>    win32api.GetFullPathName('c://work')
> 
> This does the same as abspath does above, on mine.  I ask because
> of stuff in ntpath.py which appears to be calling the equivalent
> of that instead of the normpath(join(getcwd(), path)) approach that
> the docs note is equivalent...

You're right. That's what I got now:

PythonWin 2.3.2 (#49, Nov 13 2003, 10:34:54) [MSC v.1200 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (mhammond at skippinet.com.au)
- see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
>>> import win32api
>>> win32api.GetFullPathName('c://work')
'c:\\\\work'

It seems that either ActivePython uses a different implementation for
os.abspath(), or the code changed between 2.3.2 and 2.3.4. The last
time I checked ActivePython was still using 2.3.2 -- I'll check it out
again, and upgrade if a newer version is available.

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