Multiplatform scripts: Can I avoid os.sep?

[Fredrik Lundh]

gmax2006 wrote:

> I am developing scripts that must run on both Linux and windows.
> 
> My scripts contain lots of relative paths (such as log\\log.txt or
> ctl\\table.ctl) If I use os.sep, it makes the code ugly. Is there any
> tips or techniques to have Python automatically converts \\ to / when
> the script runs on Linux? What is the best way to deal with this
> situation?

forward slashes work just fine on Windows too, in almost all cases.

(for the few cases when they don't work, use os.path.normpath and 
friends to fix them up).

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