On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, to avoid _that_ problem, Windows command line apps and the cmd.exe > shell only allow "\" as a path separator.
In cmd you can usually clarify the intent with quotes, e.g. `dir C:/Windows` fails because it parses "Windows" as a parameter, but `dir "C:/Windows"` succeeds. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list