[Python-Dev] PEP 355 status

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:49 AM 10/25/2006 -0700, Talin wrote:
>Having done a path library myself (in C++, for our code base at work),
>the trickiest part is getting the Windows path manipulations right, and
>fitting them into a model that allows writing of platform-agnostic code.
>This is especially vexing when you realize that its often useful to
>manipulate unix-style paths even when running under Win32 and vice
>versa. A prime example is that I have a lot of Python code at work that
>manipulates Perforce client specs files. The path specifications in
>these files are platform-agnostic, and use forward slashes regardless of
>the host platform, so "os.path.normpath" doesn't do the right thing for me.

You probably want to use the posixpath module directly in that case, though 
perhaps you've already discovered that.