From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:01:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Minor revision to the "\\" patch, including updating the docs a little to
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4108
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1ddc505d989fa5d5b432751fd2eb0e3eec796a0;p=python

Minor revision to the "\\" patch, including updating the docs a little to
accomodate the fact that they are more general now that they are for the
os.path module and not just posixpath.

This and the previous patch should be combined and applied to the 2.2-maint
branch.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
index 11a5740274..7ad19e3bac 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
@@ -122,11 +122,12 @@ should detect mount points for all \UNIX{} and \POSIX{} variants.
 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.  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}.
+optionally \var{path2}, etc., with exactly one directory separator
+(\code{os.sep}) 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 \file{C:} (\file{c:foo}), not
+\file{c:\textbackslash\textbackslash foo}.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{normcase}{path}