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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:22:44 -0700
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Thomas Jollans wrote:
>> The "correct" solution in many cases is to not assume any particular
>> path separator at all, and use os.path.join when dealing with paths.
>> This will work even on systems that do not accept forward slashes as
>> path separators. (does Python still support any of those?)
> 
> Yes, but only just. Python still includes support for VMS, at least for now;
> support is scheduled to be dropped in 3.3 and code supporting it to be
> removed in 3.4.

Perhaps I misremember, but I thought somebody had stepped forward to 
keep OpenVMS support going?

...

Ah, here it is -- Sandeep Mathew, in thread 'Python Support on OpenVMS' 
on python-dev.

~Ethan~