Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Unipath package

2007-01-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Mike Orr wrote: > The issue is that *maybe* the programmer wants to copy "/etc/mailcap" > on his Posix filesystem to "\etc\mailcap" on his Windows drive, That doesn't make sense. In order to do this, either the Windows file system must be mounted on the Unix system, in which case Unix paths are us

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Unipath package

2007-01-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Larry Hastings wrote: > There is in fact a /very/ sane way to interpret "/" on Windows: the root > directory of the "current" drive. Whether that's sane or not is debatable -- it depends entirely on what the application and/or user expect. A Unix user is probably expecting "/foo" to be completel

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Unipath package

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Orr
On 1/28/07, Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Passing an absolute foreign path is an error, because there's no sane way > > to interpret "C:\\" on Posix or "/" on Windows. > > There is in fact a very sane way to interpret "/" on Windows: the root > > directory of the "current" drive. It's

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Unipath package

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Orr
On 1/28/07, Larry Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dropped the Cc: of Python-3000, because I don't think this discussion > falls under that mailing list's charter. As I understand it, the > Python-3000 mailing list is for discussing the details of implementing > Python 3000. "Stuff I'd li

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Unipath package

2007-01-28 Thread Larry Hastings
I dropped the Cc: of Python-3000, because I don't think this discussion falls under that mailing list's charter. As I understand it, the Python-3000 mailing list is for discussing the details of implementing Python 3000. "Stuff I'd like to see in Python 3000" doesn't go there, it goes to "P