[issue11252] Handling statement OR assignment continuation '\' on Win32 platform

[Łukasz Langa]

Łukasz Langa <lukasz at langa.pl> added the comment:

OK, now I know more about glob than I ever wanted to! :) Basically it comes down to this:

unix>>> os.path.split('\\')
('', '\\')

win32>>> os.path.split('\\')
('\\', '')

This is why \ is recognized as the root directory on Win32 and as a non-existent file on Unix.

In case of / both Unix and Win32 treat it as a valid directory separator so `os.path.split('/')` returns `('/', '')`. This is why / is recognized as the root directory on both systems.

Does this answer your questions?

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