In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mal content <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> For example, this path corresponds to the current working directory:
>
> "dir1/dir2/dir3/../../../"
>
> So I'd like to be able to pass that to a function and get the optimised
> result of:
>
> "."
>
> It's giving me a real headache trying to work out the algorithm
> to do this.
If you just want the algorithm, the python distribution has one in
posixpath.py: the normpath function. Heed the warning about symbolic
links.
<mike
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