make nt altsep forward slash - closes bug 709428

backport candidate

diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index cf3c0be10f759e6dc0c8ed3a26fd6f45676be3d7..fcb899bd8ff063768ef85b0e949e1e638d9a705b 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pardir = '..'
 extsep = '.'
 sep = '\\'
 pathsep = ';'
-altsep = None
+altsep = '/'
 defpath = '.;C:\\bin'
 if 'ce' in sys.builtin_module_names:
     defpath = '\\Windows'