On 2006-08-01 12:31:01, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Ehm... replace that with "the latter with bonk on every OS except > Microsoft Windows". Windows is the weird one in OS-land, because they > are the only one that use the most widely used escape-character (the > backslash) as path separator.
Is that really true? From what I know, it's more like this: - Unix-type systems: '/' - Windows-type systems: '\' - Mac OS: ':' - OpenVMS: '.' - ... Maybe someone else can fill in some of the missing OSes. It doesn't seem to look like Windows is the odd man out; it rather seems that every type of OS uses its own separator. (URLs probably use the slash because the internet protocols have been developed largely on Unix-type systems for use with Unix-type systems?) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
