Behaviour of os.path.join

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On 2020-05-26 16:52, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 16:22:27 +0100, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk>
> declaimed the following:
> 
>>I think it is.  The picture is messy on Windows (because of the drive
>>letter) but absolute paths are usually taken to be those that start with
>>a path separator.
> 
> 	The drive letter is only required if one needs to access something that
> is not on the "currently logged drive". Compare:
> 
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> 
> 	I'd also like to point out that the nasty "\\" is not needed. Windows
> API understands "/" -- it is only the command line "DOS" shell that
> requires back-slash (since / is used for command options, Powershell is
> happy with / since options are prefixed with - ).
> 
Dialog windows, e.g. Open and Save dialogs, also require backslashes.

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