Dave Humphries added the comment:
Thanks for the thoughtful response Tim,
I am obviously not being clear with the way I express this. os.chdir
uses a common string but these strings represent a special subset of
strings. I'm not sure about mac and linux but windows has arrange of
characters
Dave Humphries added the comment:
Hi Amaury,
As I can't reopen the bug I will have to add it here (or open a new bug report).
The issue was about the string used in os.chdir() particularly.
While this is expected behaviour in a python string it is not expected
behaviour from a well formed
New submission from Dave Humphries:
os.chdir missed a back slash in rewriting a file path see example below (the
extra backslash was missing from the trunk directory).
Modifying the path with an extra slash enabled this to work for some reason.
(os windows 8 64 bit Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr
