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[Tim Roberts]

random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
>
>Of course, in 99% of situations where you can use a windows pathname in
>Python, you are free to use it with a forward slash instead of a
>backslash.

This is actually worth repeating, because it's not well known.

ALL Windows APIs handle forward and backward slashes interchangably.  It is
only the command interpreter that requires the backslash.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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