> BTW, there's an easy work-around for this special case: > > os.stat(os.path.join(r"c:\windows\system32", "user32.dll"))
No matter what the decision is, there are always work-arounds. The question is what language suits the users most. Being able to specify characters by ordinal IMO has much less value than the a consistent, concise definition of raw strings has. > I think it's nice that you can use forward slashes on Windows - > makes writing code that works in both worlds (Unix and Windows) > a lot easier. But, as Thomas says: you can't. You may be able to do so when using the API directly, however, it fails if you pass the file name in a command line of some tool that takes /foo to mean a command line option "foo". Regards. Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
