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Wed Oct 25 18:56:37 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069584.html

At 09:49 AM 10/25/2006 -0700, Talin wrote:
>Having done a path library myself (in C++, for our code base at work),
>the trickiest part is getting the Windows path manipulations right, and
>fitting them into a model that allows writing of platform-agnostic code.
>This is especially vexing when you realize that its often useful to
>manipulate unix-style paths even when running under Win32 and vice
>versa. A prime example is that I have a lot of Python code at work that
>manipulates Perforce client specs files. The path specifications in
>these files are platform-agnostic, and use forward slashes regardless of
>the host platform, so "os.path.normpath" doesn't do the right thing for me.

You probably want to use the posixpath module directly in that case, though 
perhaps you've already discovered that.

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