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I've never understood what is the "philosophical problem" per se. It's
clear from his implementation--Guido created "splitunc" when he removed
my patch--that he thinks these should be precise string operations. 
Whereas I propose making these slightly higher-level abstract operations
on "paths" with "drives" (really "mount points"). I think my approach
is more pleasant to use.
As for whether or not "\\foo" should be considered an absolute
path--perhaps my 1999 patch changed this behavior, but this patch does
not. This:
 >>> import ntpath
 >>> ntpath.isabs("//foo")
 True
is unchanged by the attached patch. (Or, at the very least, the latest
patch.)
At the time I guess I did a poor job of demonstrating the use case, but
I think the chorus of +1s shows there is one.
On the other hand, I'm not a Windows programmer anymore, and I barely
touch Windows boxes. I'm doing this out of the kindness of my heart ;)