Nick Coghlan added the comment: We can't change os.sep globally for the process because the Windows APIs don't reliably accept forward slashes. Changing it when the Windows binary is run through msys would thus mean potentially breaking currently working applications.
Using the Cygwin Python instead is safer, since all the affected OS API calls will be trapped by Cygwin's POSIX API implementation and translated appropriately for Windows. Terry's description when first closing this issue remains accurate: MS created this mess through an atrociously poor choice of path separator decades ago, and until *all* their APIs natively accept forward slashes as path separators (which seems unlikely to ever happen), the only backwards compatible answer currently appears to be to use a full POSIX interface layer like Cygwin. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6208> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
