On 2016-12-08, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> So, to avoid _that_ problem, Windows command line apps and the cmd.exe >> shell only allow "\" as a path separator. > > In cmd you can usually clarify the intent with quotes, e.g. `dir > C:/Windows` fails because it parses "Windows" as a parameter, but `dir > "C:/Windows"` succeeds.
That works to get the "/" past cmd.exe's parser and with seems to work with cmd.exe's built-in commands, but programs that aren't internal to cmd.exe become an issue. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Here I am in 53 at B.C. and all I want is a gmail.com dill pickle!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list