Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: > Return ``True`` if *path* is an absolute pathname. On Unix, that > means it begins with a slash, on Windows that it begins with a > backslash after chopping off a potential drive letter.
Actually the Windows part is not completely true since on Windows pathnames containing slashes ('/') are also permitted and treated as if they were backslashes ('\\'). >>> os.path.isabs('/') True >>> os.path.isabs('C:/') True >>> os.path.isabs('C:\\/') True __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1934> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com