os.join Windows action

[Michael Hoffman]

Colin J. Williams wrote:

> C:\XXX is required, C:XXX is not acceptable.

C:XXX is acceptable, it just means something entirely different from
C:\XXX. There is a current working directory on each drive. C:XXX is
file XXX in the current directory on drive C:.

> How should os.path.join('C:', 'ugh')  be treated?

Exactly as it is? If you want other behavior, you want
os.path.join('C:\\', 'ugh').
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Michael Hoffman