[PATCH 0 of 5] Patches and new win32mbcs extension

[Alexis S. L. Carvalho]

I have two questions about these changes, just to make sure I won't
break things:

Thus spake Shun-ichi Goto:
>  1) (first 4 patches)
>     Remove/alternate codes using os.sep to use existing/new functions.
>     These change is intended to allow to be hooked by win32mbcs extension.
> 
>     For example:
>        s.replace('\\', '/') => util.normpath(s)  ... use existing function

Would it be enough to use util.pconvert instead of normpath?  You did
wrap pconvert (through splitpath), pconvert is the more natural
equivalent of that s.replace(...) and some places may not want/need
normalization.

>        s.split(os.sep) => util.splitpath(s)      ... use new function
>        s.endswith(os.sep) => util.endswithsep(s) ... use new function

Can I assume this piece of code works as an alternative to os.path.join?

def join(root, name):
    if not util.endswithsep(root):
        root += os.sep
    return root + filename

os.lstat(join(root, name))

Thanks

Alexis