backport fix for missing altsep in nt (bug 709428)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 8a46b41455..b43f4dd349 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ elif 'nt' in _names:
     linesep = '\r\n'
     curdir = '.'; pardir = '..'; sep = '\\'; pathsep = ';'
     defpath = '.;C:\\bin'
+    altsep = '/'
     from nt import *
     for i in ['_exit']:
         try: