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Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of ©

From Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of ©
Date 2013-09-05 20:33 -0700
Organization Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Message-ID <84ji2914grkpljfom0kihfpfvlo33bssbo@4ax.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <r4u729t37qllb5dfcc7qmq5hpsi8apl6gf@4ax.com> <mailman.513.1378154810.19984.python-list@python.org> <5225443e$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <20130903053159.5221f886@bigbox.christie.dr> <mailman.10.1378233513.5461.python-list@python.org>

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random832@fastmail.us wrote:
>
>Of course, in 99% of situations where you can use a windows pathname in
>Python, you are free to use it with a forward slash instead of a
>backslash.

This is actually worth repeating, because it's not well known.

ALL Windows APIs handle forward and backward slashes interchangably.  It is
only the command interpreter that requires the backslash.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © materile11@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 17:03 -0700
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-09-02 10:23 +1000
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-01 19:34 -0500
    Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © materile11@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 21:20 -0700
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-01 19:40 -0500
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-09-01 19:40 -0700
    Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-09-02 13:22 -0700
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        Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-03 14:31 -0400
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            Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of � Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-06 02:15 -0400
            Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-06 09:29 -0400
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