On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 3:20 PM, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Registry subkeys aren't paths, and the other two cases are extremely narrow. Convert slashes to backslashes ONLY in the cases where you actually need to. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
