On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:26 PM, llanitedave <llanited...@veawb.coop> wrote: > On the other hand, it *is* a bit frustrating that Linux recognizes an > html-style relative path, while Windows insists on the entire absolute path. > Maybe we can call it a Windows bug, but a workaround would be nice to have.
That is, unfortunately, an all-too-common platform difference. But I'd say that you do have that workaround: > However, combined with os.path.abspath(), it's not a huge issue -- once we > understand the approach. If that works reliably on all platforms, I'd say that that's exactly the nice-to-have that you describe. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list