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Author	lukasz.langa
Recipients	Suresh.Kalkunte, georg.brandl, lukasz.langa
Date	2011-02-23.20:49:36
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Message-id	<1298494176.95.0.951013268412.issue11252@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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OK, now I know more about glob than I ever wanted to! :) Basically it comes down to this: unix>>> os.path.split('\\') ('', '\\') win32>>> os.path.split('\\') ('\\', '') This is why \ is recognized as the root directory on Win32 and as a non-existent file on Unix. In case of / both Unix and Win32 treat it as a valid directory separator so `os.path.split('/')` returns `('/', '')`. This is why / is recognized as the root directory on both systems. Does this answer your questions?

OK, now I know more about glob than I ever wanted to! :) Basically it comes down to this:

unix>>> os.path.split('\\')
('', '\\')

win32>>> os.path.split('\\')
('\\', '')

This is why \ is recognized as the root directory on Win32 and as a non-existent file on Unix.

In case of / both Unix and Win32 treat it as a valid directory separator so `os.path.split('/')` returns `('/', '')`. This is why / is recognized as the root directory on both systems.

Does this answer your questions?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-23 20:49:37	lukasz.langa	set	recipients: + lukasz.langa, georg.brandl, Suresh.Kalkunte
2011-02-23 20:49:36	lukasz.langa	set	messageid: <1298494176.95.0.951013268412.issue11252@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-02-23 20:49:36	lukasz.langa	link	issue11252 messages
2011-02-23 20:49:36	lukasz.langa	create