std.path review: update

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:24:30 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/17/11, Lars T. Kyllingstad <public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:
>> - Should I add toNativePath(), which replaces '/' with '\' on Windows  
>> and
>> vice versa on POSIX?
>
> Actually I withdraw that feature request. Some tools will work with
> only forward slashes, others only backward slashes, but this is
> regardless of what platform they're on.
>
> E.g. some tools don't work with forward slashes, while GIT doesn't
> work with backward slashes when running on Windows.
>
> I think .replace(r"\", "/") and .replace("/", r"\") are good enough,
> but maybe an alias to each version wouldn't be bad. E.g.
> "toForwardSlash" and "toBackslash". It's not hard to define this in
> our own code, so it's not really a feature request.


Hum... I wonder if normalize should do this...

Is normalize supposed to create a canonical path?  If so, then this needs  
to happen.

-Steve