On 5/28/20, BlindAnagram <blindanag...@nowhere.com> wrote: > > Thank you for making the effort to answer a number of issues raaised in > this thread. I much appreciate your input.
For a more practical POV, see the topic on "File System Navigation" [1] for the C++ standard <filesystem> API. In the C++ standard library, trailing slashes are not stripped and path p0(L"C:/Documents") compares as less than path p1(L"C:/Documents/"). Also, regarding whether rooted paths without a drive are absolute, you'll find that C++ is_absolute() requires has_root_name() && has_root_directory() in Windows. A rooted path without a drive is thus not absolute in the C++ standard library. [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/standard-library/file-system-navigation?view=vs-2019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/standard-library/file-system-navigation?view=vs-2019 [2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/standard-library/path-class?view=vs-2019#is_absolute -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
