Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > Or perhaps they should follow bash's lead, and map \C to C for every > character. If there were no special escapes at all, Windows > programmers wouldn't keep getting burnt when they write > "C:\\Documents\today\foo" and end up with something completely > unexpected. > > Oh wait, no, that still wouldn't work, because they'd end up with > C:\Documentstodayfoo. So copying bash doesn't work. >
There is of course no problem at all so long as you stick to writing your paths as MS intended them to be written: 8.3 and UPPERCASE >>> "C:\DOCUME~1\TODAY\FOO" 'C:\\DOCUME~1\\TODAY\\FOO' :^) -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
