Behaviour of os.path.join

BlindAnagram blindanagram at nowhere.com
Tue May 26 13:01:16 EDT 2020


On 26/05/2020 17:09, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Mats Wichmann <mats at python.org> writes:
>> an absolute path is one that starts with the pathname separator.
> 
>   The Python Library Reference does not use the term
>   "pathname separator". It uses "directory separator"
>   (os.sep) and "filename separator" ('/' on Unix).
> 
>   On Windows:
> 
> |>>> import pathlib
> |>>> import os
> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath('\\').is_absolute()
> |False
> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath(os.sep).is_absolute()
> |False
> |>>> pathlib.PureWindowsPath('/').is_absolute()
> |False

Thanks, that seems to suggest that there is an issue and that I should
hence submit this as an issue.


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