[Python-Dev] Alternative path suggestion

Sat May 6 18:13:43 CEST 2006

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:11:59PM -0400, Edward Loper wrote:
> If one of the path segments contained a path-splitting character, 
> should it automatically get quoted? (Is that even possible on all 
> platforms?) E.g., what would the following give me on windows?
>> str(Path('a', 'b\\c'))

 AFAIK there is no way to escape path-splitting characters (directory
separators, actually) on any major platform.
Oleg.
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