At 09:49 AM 10/25/2006 -0700, Talin wrote: >Having done a path library myself (in C++, for our code base at work), >the trickiest part is getting the Windows path manipulations right, and >fitting them into a model that allows writing of platform-agnostic code. >This is especially vexing when you realize that its often useful to >manipulate unix-style paths even when running under Win32 and vice >versa. A prime example is that I have a lot of Python code at work that >manipulates Perforce client specs files. The path specifications in >these files are platform-agnostic, and use forward slashes regardless of >the host platform, so "os.path.normpath" doesn't do the right thing for me.
You probably want to use the posixpath module directly in that case, though perhaps you've already discovered that. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
