python 2.7.12 on Linux behaving differently than on Windows

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-12-08, eryk sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So, to avoid _that_ problem, Windows command line apps and the cmd.exe
>> shell only allow "\" as a path separator.
>
> In cmd you can usually clarify the intent with quotes, e.g. `dir
> C:/Windows` fails because it parses "Windows" as a parameter, but `dir
> "C:/Windows"` succeeds.

That works to get the "/" past cmd.exe's parser and with seems to work
with cmd.exe's built-in commands, but programs that aren't internal to
cmd.exe become an issue.

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