External References

[asnoio]asnoio - Asynchronous and Non-blocking IO; Arno-Can Uestuensoez @Ingenieurbuero Arno-Can Uestuensoez; 2017; PyPI; GitHub; docs @pythonhosted.org/asnoio
[CIFS]Common Internet File System @ https://technet.microsoft.com; Common Internet File System
[codecsStandard]lib/codecs; Python2 - codecs - 7.8.3. Standard Encodings, Python3 - codecs - 7.2.3. Standard Encodings
[CYGWIN]Cygwin; cygwin.org
[epyunit]epyunit; Arno-Can Uestuensoez @Ingenieurbuero Arno-Can Uestuensoez; 2017; PyPI; GitHub; docs @pythonhosted.org/epyunit
[FAT]FAT Technical Reference; FAT@technet
[HTML5]HTML5 - current(2); HTML5@W3C
[HTML5URL]HTML5 - URL; HTML5-URL@W3C
[IEEE]IEEE - Advancing Technology for Humanity; IEEE.org;
[IEEE1003]IEEE Std 1003.1(TM), 2013 Edition @ http://www.opengroup.org; IEEE Std 1003.1
[IEEE1003C412]IEEE Std 1003.1(TM), 2013 Edition; Chapter 4.12 @ http://www.opengroup.org; IEEE Std 1003.1 - Chapter 4.12
[IETF]IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force; IETF;
[iobricks]iobricks - A Modular, Switchable, and Routable Abstract IO-Stream Layer; Arno-Can Uestuensoez @Ingenieurbuero Arno-Can Uestuensoez; 2017; PyPI; GitHub; docs @pythonhosted.org/iobricks
[IRIURI]An IRI/URI Namespace for International Object Identifiers (OIDs) draft-larmouth-oid-iri-04; IRI/URI OID@IETF
[ISSUE26329]Python - Issue 26329: os.path.normpath(“//”) returns //; issue26329;
[ISSUE32078]Python - Issue 32078: string result of str(bytes()) in Python3; issue32078;
[MS-CIFS]Common Internet File System (CIFS) Protocol; Microsoft Inc.; CIFS@Microsoft
[MS-DTYP]Windows Data Types - Chap. 2.2.57 UNC; Microsoft Inc.; UNC@Microsoft
[MS-FSCC]File System Control Codes; MS-FSCC@Microsoft
[MS-SMB]Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol; Microsoft Inc.; SMB@Microsoft
[MS-SMB2][MS-SMB2]: Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Versions 2 and 3; Microsoft Inc.; SMB@Microsoft
[MSDN]Technical Documents; Technical Documents@Microsoft
[MSOSPEC]Open Specifications; Open Specifications@Microsoft
[macpath]legacy lib/macpath - macpath() variants; Python2 macpath, Python3 macpath
[multiconf]multiconf - Parser and Compiler for multiple configuration formats; Arno-Can Uestuensoez @Ingenieurbuero Arno-Can Uestuensoez; 2018; PyPI; GitHub; docs @pythonhosted.org/multiconf
[normpath]lib/os.path - os.path.normpath(); Python2 normpath, Python3 normpath
[NTFS]NTFS Technical Reference; NTFS@technet
[ntpath]lib/ntpath - *ntpath; Python2 ntpath, Python3 ntpath
[os]lib/os; Python2 os, Python3 os
[os.path]lib/os.path - os.path.normpath() variants; Python2 os.path, Python3 os.path
[path]Path (computing); Path@Wikipedia
[pathlib]lib/pathlib - Python3; Python3 pathlib
[PATHVAR]PATH VARIABLE; PATH_VAR@Wikipedia
[PEP428]– The pathlib module – object-oriented filesystem paths; Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>; Python-Version: 3.4 30-July-2012; Python.org
[PEP471]os.scandir() function – a better and faster directory iterator; Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com>; Python-Version: 3.5 330-May-2014; Python.org
[PEP519]– Adding a file system path protocol; Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> Python-Version: 3.6 11-May-2016; Python.oorg
[POSIX]IEEE Std 1003.1(TM), 2013 Edition; The Opengroup
[posixpath]lib/posixpath - *posixpath; Python2 posixpath, Python3 posixpath
[pysourceinfo]pysourceinfo; Arno-Can Uestuensoez @Ingenieurbuero Arno-Can Uestuensoez; 2010,2011,2015-2017; PyPI; GitHub; docs @pythonhosted.org/pysourceinfo
[RFC]RFC Request for Confimation; RFCs@IETF;
[RFC1035]DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION; RFC1035@IETF,
[RFC1123]Requirements for Internet Hosts – Application and Support; RFC1123@IETF,
[RFC1630]Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW; RFC1630@IETF,
[RFC1738]Uniform Resource Locators (URL); RFC1738@IETF,
[RFC1808]Relative Uniform Resource Locators; RFC1808@IETF,
[RFC1959]An LDAP URL Format; RFC1959@IETF,
[RFC2141]URN Syntax; RFC2141@IETF,
[RFC2224]NFS URL Scheme; RFC2224@IETF,
[RFC2255]An LDAP URL Format; RFC2255@IETF,
[RFC2279]UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646; RFC2279@IETF,
[RFC2396]Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax; RFC2396@IETF,
[RFC2397]The “data” URL scheme; RFC2397@IETF,
[RFC2648]A URN Namespace for IETF Documents; RFC2648@IETF,
[RFC3061]A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers; RFC3061@IETF,
[RFC3305]Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), URLs, and Uniform Resource Names (URNs): Clarifications and Recommendations; RFC3305@IETF,
[RFC3492]Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA); RFC3492@IETF,
[RFC3530]Network File System (NFS) version 4 Protocol; RFC3530@IETF,
[RFC3617]Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme and Applicability Statement for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP); RFC3617@IETF,
[RFC3986]Uniform Resource Identifier - URI: Generic Syntax; RFC3986@IETF,
[RFC3987]Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs); RFC3987@IETF,
[RFC4088]Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP); RFC4088@IETF,
[RFC4122]A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace; RFC4122@IETF,
[RFC4291]IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture; RFC4291@IETF,
[RFC5122]Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP); RFC5122@IETF,
[RFC5234]URIRFC 5234 - Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF; RFC5234@IETF,
[RFC5781]The rsync URI Scheme; RFC5781@IETF,
[RFC6570]URI Template; RFC6570@IETF,
[RFC7320]URI Design and Ownership; RFC7320@IETF
[RFC7595]URI Design and Ownership; RFC7595@IETF; RFC7595@IETF;
[RFC7869]The “vnc” URI Scheme; RFC7869@IETF
[RFC8089]The “file” URI Scheme; 2017; RFC8089@IETF
[RFCSSHURI]Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and Secure Shell (SSH); 2006; RFCSSHURI@IETF
[SAMBA]Samba - opening windows to a wider world; Samba
[SMBCIFS]Microsoft SMB Protocol and CIFS Protocol @ https://technet.microsoft.com; SMB Protocol and CIFS Protocol Overview
[SMBURI]SMB File Sharing URI Scheme; SMB File Sharing URI Scheme
[syscalls]syscalls; Arno-Can Uestuensoez @Ingenieurbuero Arno-Can Uestuensoez; 2017; PyPI; GitHub; docs @pythonhosted.org/syscalls
[URISCHEME]The file URI Scheme - draft-kerwin-file-scheme-13; IETF; URI Scheme@IETF
[UNC]UNC: Common definition in [MS-DTYP] Windows Data Types - Chap. 2.2.57 UNC; Microsoft Inc.; UNC@Microsoft
[URLPARSING]Living Standard — Last Updated 27 November 2017 - 4.4. URL parsing; URL Specification - Living Standard@whatwg.org
[URLVALIDATOR]W3C Link Checker; URL-VALIDATOR@W3C
[xkcd]Profile Info; Randall Munroe; xkcd.com ; Profile Info
[VIRTUALBOX]VirtualBox; VirtualBox.org
[WikiHansReiser]Hans Reiser; Wikipedia
[WikiMiriamDavenport]Miriam Davenport or Miriam Davenport Ebel; Miriam Davenport @Wikipedia
[WikiPath]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Path (computing); Path@Wikipedia