[WIP] [Issue: 50] Backslashes in Windows paths need to be escaped

[nitind]

Skip calling abspath and the normalization that turns \\ into \
on Windows.

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[nitind]

For #50 .

Removing the abspath call as it forces normalization. While there is technically some risk involved on Python<3.4 if the extension is part of the PYTHONPATH using a relative path, I think it's more important that the paths returned from the Python libraries on Windows that already contain the required double-backslashes be kept intact.

[rs2]

OK to merge?

[nitind]

@rs2 Were you able to successfully test the change?

[rs2]

👎 Sorry. Still raise IOError(\'template file "%s" could not be found\' % self.template_file)\r\nOSError: template file "index.html.tpl" could not be found\r\n'