On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:00:55 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: Dan Stromberg wrote:
> / works fine on windows, and doesn't require escaping ("/foo/bar"). "/" works fine in most contexts, but not in shell commands, where "/" is conventionally used to indicate a switch. Commands which follow this convention typically recognise "/" as the start of a switch even when it is immediately preceded by a letter (with no intervening whitespace). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list