Message1482

I totally agree with Charlie that platform specific os.path modules would be a great addition to 2.3 (or whatever the next version number will be). Changing os.path that much for 2.2 would be quite risky especially because it works (at least mostly).

One sure thing is that if/when the change is done some test cases are needed. Without automated tests that are run on all the platforms (via buildbots) it's really hard to get everything working. It would probably be best to write tests already for the current implementation so that when it's changed possible regressions are noticed. Unfortunately writing unit tests for functionality that's this closely tied to filesystem and behaves differently on different platforms is not trivial.