std.path.getName(): Screwy by design?

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:02:44 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:16:36 -0500, Jonathan M Davis
> <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
>> I can understand if the path stuff
>> can't deal with / or \ in file names (that's probably not worth trying
>> to get to
>> work right), but it _should_ be able to handle directories with dots in
>> them and
>> files with no extension.
> 
> / and \ are not legal in names on any filesystem that I know of.
> 
> -Steve

On a *NIX machine, try

  touch "c:\\foo\\bar"

You may be surprised. ;)

-Lars