def remove_backslashes(path):
    """Remove backslashes in *path*

    For Windows platforms only.
    Returns the path unchanged on other platforms.

    This is especially useful when formatting path strings on
    Windows platforms for which folder paths may contain backslashes
    and provoke unicode decoding errors in Python 3 (or in Python 2
    when future 'unicode_literals' symbol has been imported)."""
    if os.name == 'nt':
        # Removing trailing single backslash
        if path.endswith('\\') and not path.endswith('\\\\'):
            path = path[:-1]
        # Replacing backslashes by slashes
        path = path.replace('\\', '/')
        path = path.replace('/\'', '\\\'')
    return path