[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Unipath package (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jan 29 01:13:08 CET 2007

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 used for both, or the Unix file system must be mounted on the Windows system, in which case they're both Windows paths. In neither case is a conversion from Unix to Windows pathnames needed.

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