[MERGE] Bugfix #68124: Allow import plugins from zip archives

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jan Hudec wrote:
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>> I don't know why os.path.split('a/b/c') works on Windows, but I assume 
>> it's Windows-specific compatibility code.
> 
> Because '/' *is* valid path separator on windows. In fact all windows
> syscalls do accept both '/' and '\' as separator. As far as I know (and
> I often run Windows commands from cygwin shell), the only place wehre
> '/' is not accepted is in cmd.exe in path to executable and in arguments
> to builtin commands. Everywhere else it just works.
> 
>> Certainly, it behaves differently on Windows vs Unix:
>>>>> a = 'a\\b\\c'
>>>>> os.path.split(a)
>> ('', 'a\\b\\c')
> 
> Sure. Because on unix '\\' is a legal character in filename.

Yeah. I'm not sure why cmd.exe works that way, but I'm guessing it is
because Windows likes to use '/' for options. So you can do:

dir /ap

But you can *also* do:

dir/ap

Or even
dir..

I certainly often typed "cd.." before I started using unix (ahh, the old
dos days when you *had* to use a terminal. How I do not miss thee. :)

John
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