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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2002-09-12 17:39:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2002-09-12 17:39:56 (GMT) |
| commit | c12909bcc6edd14b20f08a8818e5ef36503c4ade (patch) | |
| tree | f1ae903ab8ceab16970e240e88ecac9a3fbb9206 /Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex | |
| parent | 6dd7d07aa65f66fe9d99caf905b897af2277af30 (diff) | |
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add note about os.path.join and drive letters on Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex index d0bb73b..11a5740 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex @@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ Joins one or more path components intelligently. If any component is an absolute path, all previous components are thrown away, and joining continues. The return value is the concatenation of \var{path1}, and optionally \var{path2}, etc., with exactly one slash (\code{'/'}) -inserted between components, unless \var{path} is empty. +inserted between components, unless \var{path} is empty. Note that on +Windows, since there is a current directory for each drive, +{}\function{os.path.join("c:", "foo")} represents a path relative to the +current directory on drive C:, not \code{c:\\foo}. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{normcase}{path} |