(path)
return path.startswith("c:") or path.startswith("C:")
On Cygwin systems Python needs a little help determining if a path
  is an absolute Windows path or not, so that
  it does not treat those as relative, which results in bad paths like:
  '..\\C:\\<some path>\\some_source_code_file.cc'
On Cygwin systems Python needs a little help determining if a path
  is an absolute Windows path or not, so that
  it does not treat those as relative, which results in bad paths like:
  '..\\C:\\<some path>\\some_source_code_file.cc'
On Cygwin systems Python needs a little help determining if a path is an absolute Windows path or not so that it does not treat those as relative which results in bad paths like : .. \\ C : \\ <some path > \\ some_source_code_file . cc
def _IsWindowsAbsPath(path):
    """
  On Cygwin systems Python needs a little help determining if a path
  is an absolute Windows path or not, so that
  it does not treat those as relative, which results in bad paths like:
  '..\\C:\\<some path>\\some_source_code_file.cc'
  """
    return path.startswith("c:") or path.startswith("C:")
def _IsWindowsAbsPath ( path ) : return path . startswith ( "c:" ) or path . startswith ( "C:" )