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Re: os.path and Path

Date 2011-06-16 09:16 -0700
From Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Subject Re: os.path and Path
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> If Path is intended to be platform independent, then 
> these two paths could represent the same location:
> 
> 'a/b/c:d/e'  # on Linux or OS X
> 'a:b:c/d:e'  # on classic Mac pre OS X
> 
> and be impossible on Windows. So what's the canonical path it should be 
> converted to?

Are these actual valid paths?  I thought Linux used '/' and Mac used ':'.

~Ethan~

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os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-15 19:00 -0700
  Re: os.path and Path Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 09:03 +0200
    Re: os.path and Path Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-16 07:58 +0000
      Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 09:16 -0700
        Re: os.path and Path Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-16 16:41 +0000
          Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 10:18 -0700
          Re: os.path and Path Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 11:21 -0600
      Re: os.path and Path Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2011-06-16 18:32 +0200
      Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 10:07 -0700
      Re: os.path and Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 11:00 +1000
  Re: os.path and Path Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-16 07:14 +0000
    Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 09:05 -0700
      Re: os.path and Path Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-17 00:48 +0000
        Re: os.path and Path Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-16 18:19 -0700
        Re: os.path and Path Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2011-06-16 19:55 -0700
          Re: os.path and Path rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 21:24 -0700

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