"Dan Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Windows system calls treat / and \ interchangeably, but the command > prompt insists on backslashes.
No. Commands built-in to the command prompt and certain other programs (mostly but not exclusively from Microsoft) insist on backslashes. Most programs, especially those originating from the unixverse, will accept backslashes and forward slashes interchangeably from the command prompt. Even a lot of Microsoft's own programs are happy to accept backslashed command line arguments. If in doubt just call os.path.normpath() on a path string before using it. Also it is usually worth putting command line arguments inside " marks to avoid problems with spaces or other special characters in path names. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
