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
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
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
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
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
