message: Path: Drop empty components for aesthetic reasons.
  This seems rather reasonable but also very touchy as path are
  the root of everything in drake.
diff: @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ class Path:
  else:
  absolute = False
  virtual = False
  - path = tuple(path.split('/'))
  + path = tuple(filter(lambda c: c, path.split('/')))
  return path, absolute, virtual, volume
  separator = '/'
  