On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > In Python, you should always use forward slashes for paths, even on Windows.
There are cases where slash doesn't work (e.g. some command lines; \\?\ prefixed paths; registry subkey paths), so it's simpler to follow a rule to always convert paths to backslash on Windows, using os.path.normpath or pathlib.Path. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list