Correct slash direction for .pth files on Windows

pypa · May 3, 2010 · 770930d · 770930d
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diff --git a/pip/req.py b/pip/req.py
@@ -1562,6 +1562,11 @@ def __init__(self, pth_file):
         self._saved_lines = None
 
     def add(self, entry):
+        # On Windows, entries that describe absolute paths outside of
+        # site-packages are written with backslashes, but all the
+        # others use forward slashes.
+        if sys.platform == 'win32' and not os.path.splitdrive(entry)[0]:
+            entry = entry.replace('\\','/')
         self.entries.add(entry)
 
     def remove(self):